A Convergence
of Convergences:
A Contest.
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Aftersquib
to the Foregoing.
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Mr. Weschler's follow-up
to his recent interlude.
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No sooner had we posted our latest interlude than we received the above from Clint Roenish of Toronto, Ontario—a truly uncanny intermeshing of El Greco's Pietà (1587–97) with a recent news photo, with Mr. Roenish providing no further commentary than the caption to the photo, which ran as follows:
An exhausted Samantha Whiteside, her swim goggles in hand, is lowered on a stretcher moments after completing her 52 km marathon swim across Lake Ontario. The 16-year-old, who took water therapy as a child to help her cope with disabling juvenile arthritis, was just 71 seconds shy of Cindy Nicholas's 1974 cross-lake record.
After the previous posting, hardly anything more need be added.
But one might note, on the one hand, a second sort of possible rhyme for the photograph, one which would be more gender-appropriate, which is, of course, to say Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1645–52):
And then, as well, there is the matter of those thronging photographers surrounding Ms. Whiteside, with their dangling lenses all agape, a spectacle in its own right of the sort that neither Christ nor Teresa, thankfully, ever had to endure. Although, come to think of
it, what on earth else is Teresa having to deal with there in Bernini's rendition, with that angel's panting voyeuristic gaze (a stand-in for our own). And then Christ, too, across time came to suffer his own throng of jostling flashbulb rubberneckers. Such, at any rate, is another way of thinking about the hundreds of painters and sculptors who took up the subject of his Deposition From the Cross—the Old Masters reconceived, in this sense, as Paparazzi of the Passion.
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Filippino Lippi and Pietro Perugino, The Deposition (circa 1506)
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Master of the St. Bartholomew Altarpiece,
St. Bartholomew Altarpiece (circa 1470–1510)
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Agnolo Bronzino, The Deposition of Christ (1542–45)
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Rosso Fiorentino, Deposition (1521)
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Antonio Ciseri, The Deposition of Christ (circa 1883)
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Giotto, The Mourning of Christ (1305)
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Caravaggio, The Entombment (1602–3)
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(For that matter, flipping the polarities of our analogy, more contemporary paparazzi, all agog over this Paris or that Diana, this Brad or the other Jen, might well themselves be thought of as latter-day versions of their Old Master predecessors, likewise in thrall to
the transcendental incarnate. Star power, indeed.)
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WINNERS.
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1. Evolving, Evolved by Charlie Hopper
2. Primal Forces, Basic Colors by Andy Hunter
3. The End of the Beginning by Holly Dunsworth
Intermezzo by Lawrence Weschler
4. This Is Not an Ad by Jimmy Chen
5. Catskills Vagina by Dan Clem
6. The Antipodes by Chris Zic
7. Self-Made Constriction by Sam Gaskin
8. We Are the Son by Danny Erker
9. Painfully Unaware by Dan Park
10. Gutshot by Jason Torchinsky
Weschler's Second Interlude
11. Love and War by Kim Wood
12. Inside and Out There by Lena Webb
13. The March by Emily Marvosh
14. Feminine Divine Triptych by Margit Christenson
15. Time's Deliberate Convergence by Steve Denyszyn
16. A Rousseau/Hirshfield Convergence by Adam Webb
Beirut/Warsaw by Lawrence Weschler
17. Clothesline Raising Over Carlisle, Indiana by Charlie Hopper
Carnival of Convergences
Weschler's Fourth Interlude
Aftersquib to the Foregoing
18. Pelvises All the Way Down by John Peter Rickgauer
19. Ovary Night? by Maya Muñoz
20. Christ in Space by Jonathan Shipley
A Pair of Convergences Off of Tina Barney
Another Carnival of Convergences
21. Moral Confusion: Iraq, Munich, and Vietnam by Donald Rumsfeld
22. Seeing the Tree for the Forest by Walter Murch
An Addendum to the Foregoing, and a Visitor Challenge
23, 24, and 25. Far Out by Michael Benson, Brian Christian, and Walter Murch
26. Jewish Bunk Beds by Monica S. Bland
Those Damn Swedish Trees, Take 3: Convergence of the Blogs
27. Degenerate Boogie-Woogie by Lisa Lee
Carnival of Convergences No. 3
28. Sand and Moon by Alison Cornyn
Actaeon: An Ovidian Impromptu by Lawrence Weschler
29 and 30. Hoods and Veils by Vero Testa and Lauren Redniss
The Onion/Bickle Convergence by Lawrence Weschler
31. The Lone Figure Against the Armored Swarm by Michele Siegel
32. Muscle and Flow by Benjamin R. Cohen
An Addendum to the Foregoing: Cities, Brains, Orchestras by Lawrence Weschler
Saint and Princess by Lawrence Weschler
Beauty Queen and Baghdad Hummer by Lawrence Weschler
Carnival of Convergences No. 4
Laughing, Clapping, Constantly Forgetting: A Trill of Readerly Associations by Lawrence Weschler
33. Lithographica by R.A. Villanueva
34. Papal Fire (Papa Lux) by Nick Feia
Addendum to "Laughing, Clapping ..." and, More Specifically, to the Stalinist-Applause Anecdote by Lawrence Weschler
35. Disseminations: Internet, Dandelions, Flight Paths by Sarah Daegling
36. Black and White and in Color by Walter Murch
Carnival of Convergences No. 5
Lee Friedlander's Visionary Trees: An Addendum to the Last Chapters of Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler
37. Shipwrecked Desperation by Charles Mudede via Matt Haber
38. Life Forms by Ariel Winter
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