How Japanese anime draws on religious traditions to explore themes of destiny, sacrifice and the struggle between desire and duty
Similarly, Buddhist goma fire ceremonies involve priests burning wooden sticks in sacred flames to symbolize the eradication of ignorance and desire. Rengoku’s own techniques reflect this duality: His ...
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Antigua Guatemala
Criterion (ii): Antigua Guatemala contains living traces of Spanish culture with its principal monuments, built in the Baroque style of the 18th century preserved today as ruins. Antigua Guatemala was ...
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Painting trauma: Francis Bacon’s suicide paintings
These paintings are riddled with pathos, through which Bacon’s remorse is felt. The choice of the triptych, a go-to for Bacon, is a religious style of painting composition rooted in Christian art.