Pieta in Flames

Pieta in Flames
Author: Viktor Car
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2011-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1105166732

The main character gets entangled into a world of corporate scheming and greed, sinking ever deeper into Faustian deals. Nadia is his long lost love, Croatia his lost homeland; Paris a symbol of his expired youth and a graveyard of his sentimental expectations. Disoriented and alone he looks for solutions in numbers and symmetries only to realize that 'nothing is real and duality is within.' This autobiographical novel takes place mainly in France, but it also takes us to Warszaw, Casablanca, Rome, Zagreb, Shanghai, Dallas, Strasbourg. The satanic culmination takes place in the global capital of fakery, Las Vegas.

Pieta's Kiss

Pieta's Kiss
Author: Richard Maynard
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1412031486

One man's search for the Holy Grail, and his deepening involvement with an ancient society whose web reaches into every corner of society. His quest takes him into and beyond the practises of witchcraft, into ancient crypts and finally on a hunt for the very tomb of Adam.

Yesu's Baboon

Yesu's Baboon
Author: Gerhard Venter
Publisher: Gerhard Venter
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The judgment of Koyati, a poor herdboy from a remote village in Tanzania, is often clouded, as if he were a crocodile lurking under muddy waters. He would rather be quick and clear-eyed like Rabbit. He goes to the city and soon lands in prison. A parole officer calls him a baboon. Insulted to the core, Koyati starts incorporating a baboon in his woodcarving. On death row he discovers that he has world-class talent. Can his strange art save him?

Italy

Italy
Author: Ros Belford
Publisher: Rough Guides
Total Pages: 1246
Release: 2003
Genre: Italy
ISBN: 9781843530602

From Mantua's Pallazo Ducale to the precipitous coves of the Tyrrhenian coast, this book guides the independent-minded traveler through one of the most adored countries in the world. of color photos. 82 maps.

Christian Art

Christian Art
Author: Michelle P. Brown
Publisher: Lion Hudson Ltd
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-01-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1912552566

Explore the rich history and influence of Christian art from Antiquity to the present day. Michelle Brown traces the rich history of Christian art, crossing boundaries to explore how art has reflected and stimulated a response to the teachings of Christ, and to Christian thought and experience across the ages. Embracing much of the history of art in the West and parts of the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australasia, Michelle considers art of the earliest Christians to the modern day. Featuring articles by invited contributors on subjects including Icons; Renaissance Florence; Rubens and the Counter-Reformation; Religious Folk Art; Jewish Artists; Christian Themes; Making the St John’s Bible, and Christianity and Contemporary Art in North America, Christian Art is an ideal survey of the subject for all those interested in the world’s artistic heritage. •⊂ Comprehensive and authoritative text from the Early Christian period to the modern day •⊂ Wide international coverage •⊂ Feature articles on special subjects by a team of experts from around the world

Suffering as Identity

Suffering as Identity
Author: Esther Benbassa
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789600758

Reaching from biblical times to the present day, Esther Benbassa's prize-winning exploration of Jewish identity is both epic and comprehensive. She shows how in the Jewish world, the representation and ritualization of suffering have shaped the history of both the people and the religion. Benbassa argues that the nineteenth century gave rise to a Jewish 'lachrymose' historiography, and that Jewish history was increasingly seen to be a 'vale of tears'-a development that has become even more pronounced since the Holocaust. The treatment of the Holocaust in the State of Israel now has the form of a civil religion. In principle within reach of everyone, the 'duty of memory' and the uniqueness of the genocide have mitigated for many Jews the loss of other traditions. The Israeli government invokes the memory of the Holocaust to neutralize threats to its interests-ensuring that suffering continues to be a central part of Jewish identity and positioning the State of Israeli as a redemptive force.

Caravaggio in Film and Literature

Caravaggio in Film and Literature
Author: Laura Rorato
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351572687

Although fictional responses to Caravaggio date back to the painter's lifetime (1571-1610), it was during the second half of the twentieth century that interest in him took off outside the world of art history. In this new monograph, the first book-length study of Caravaggio's recent impact, Rorato provides a panoramic overview of his appropriation by popular culture. The extent of the Caravaggio myth, and its self-perpetuating nature, are brought out by a series of case studies involving authors and directors from numerous countries (Italy, Great Britain, America, Canada, France and Norway) and literary and filmic texts from a number of genres - from straightforward tellings of his life to crime fiction, homoerotic film and postcolonial literature.

City of Time

City of Time
Author: Eoin McNamee
Publisher: Wendy Lamb
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375839127

When he receives the cryptic message that "time is running out," Owen, known as "The Navigator," summons Cati and Dr. Diamond and together they journey to the City of Time in order to discover what has gone wrong.