Soliloquy
Why is Friday the 13th Unlucky?
Phobia expert Dr. Donald Dossey claims as many as 21 million Americans suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th). So how did this superstition come about? The short answer is we donât really know, but there some...
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Italy, Venice - Basilica Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.
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Italy, Venice - Cathedrals churches and monasteries
There are more than 250 churches in Venice, both consecrated and desecrated. Obviously, the sacred ones are first of all places of worship, but all together they make up a cultural, artistic and human heritage of inestimable value.
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There will be blood: Filipino Catholic devotees re-enact crucifixion in brutal Easter ritual
While most Catholics in the Philippines spend Good Friday at church or with family, others go to more extreme lengths to atone for their sins
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CLEAN : Rare late Botticelli to be auctioned at Sotheby's New York
A rare portrait of Christ by 15th century Italian old master Sandro Botticelli is up for auction at Sotheby's New York (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Bridgeman Arts
The Vision of St. Eustachius
From the natural studies sketches collected in the Vallardi Album to its masterpiece ""The Vision of St. Eustachius"", Antonio Pisanello's enigmatic work, between Gothic and Renaissance, is here presented with a specific focus on the...
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A major retrospective of Francis Bacon's work
Tate Britain, London, 9 September 2008
1. Wide shot Tate Britain
2. Midshot exhibition poster
3. Pull out Study after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
4. Close up and pan Study after Vel�zquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X
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CLEAN : Culture: Chagall retrospective in Brussels
A major retrospective of the works of twentieth-century Russian artist Marc Chagall takes place at the Royal Museums of Fine Art in Brussels until the end of June
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CLEAN : Film star Joseph Fiennes talks Jesus the Pope Michael Jackson
CLEAN : Film star Joseph Fiennes talks Jesus the Pope Michael Jackson
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CLEAN : UN rights chief slams IS war crimes
CLEAN : UN rights chief slams IS war crimes
Bridgeman Arts
The Descent from the Cross
The central panel of a triptych by Rubens, in which the artist reconstructed the last moments of the sacrifice at the Calvary in a complex composition of figures and volumes influenced by Caravaggio.