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In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and auto...

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Disease. he was in bed for a month. a great photographer. i bought a camera. i started to take just amateur pictures. >> anthony: one thing that has not changed through the years is the hungarian affection for taking the waters. marinating in baths, a tradition going back to the romance and some of that survived right from two wars and communism and they did it in style. who came here? back in those days? was this reserved for anyone who wanted to come here? >> you know, moneywise, it was since nobody [indistinct], so everyone -- was cheap. >> anthony: right. >> we have so many. >> anthony: th...

From the Gothic spires of Europe to the colorful domes of the East, these cathedrals offer a glimpse into the art, architecture, and religious traditions of cultures around the world.

The National Library said on Tuesday experts later confirmed that the Baroque playwright and one of the most prominent names of the Spanish Golden Age wrote "La francesa Laura" (The Frenchwoman Laura) a few years before his death in 1635. Brazilian Navy says it will sink 'ghost' aircraft carrier at high sea A decommissioned 1960's aircraft carrier has been floating offshore for three months since Turkey refused it entry to be scrapped there will be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in waters under Brazil's jurisdiction, the Brazilian Navy said on Wednesday.