OLD LYME Christ the King Church "The Song of Songs: Sensuous Polyphony From the Habsburg Era of Renaissance Europe," presented by Connecticut Early Music Festival.
But it's not just products and food you can consume before celebrating the birth of that old dog Jesus Christ in December.
Vorisek, a Czech piano virtuoso who settled in Vienna, wrote only one symphony, but it kept good company, making its debut in a program with Beethoven's 20-year-old oratorio "Christ on the Mount of Olives," and it continues to receive an occasional performance or recording even outside the Czech Republic.
The most inventive "solution" to the failure of the old covenant is Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the son of God who comes from God and who is God, who takes upon himself the sins of the world, and who allows himself to be sacrificed, thereby cleansing the world of its sin.
There, he encountered 59-year-old Thomas C. Christ, a grandfather who worked as a truck driver.
Think of Chris Ofili's dung-splattered black Virgin Mary, which Rudolph Giuliani, New York's mayor at the time, decried as anti-Catholic or its older cousin "Piss Christ," by anti-Catholic ora photograph depitsing a crucifix submerged in Serranolderangerine-cousind urine.
But some critics have even gone so far as to compare it to the infamous botched repair of a century-old painting of Christ, known commonly as "Beast Jesus".
My wife, Hedy, and I were touring the Gallery of Tapestries at the Vatican and came across a tapestry by the workshop of Pieter van Aelst: the huge and stunning 500-year-old "Resurrection of Christ," which is based on a cartoon by Raphael.
A well-intended but ultimately very underqualified octogenarian woman in Borja, Spain, has become something of an international art celebrity as her attempt to restore Elias Garcia Martinez's "Ecce Homo -styled fresco transformed a more tHomo -styledold depiction ofrescostransformedthing else entirely.
And then "Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World)" a 500-year-old portrait of Christ thought to be a copy when it was plucked from an estate sale for a measly $10,000 in 2005, sold for nearly half a billion dollars to an undisclosed private buyer.
And then "Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World)" a 500-year-old portrait of Christ thought to be a copy when it was plucked from an estate sale for a measly $10,000 in 2005, sold for nearly half a billion dollars to an undisclosed private buyer.
