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Contents for FMR Magazine Issue 113
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Lapis specularis |
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Dedicated to the Virgin by the warlike, but pious Maximillian I, duke of Baveria, the Reiche Kapelle, in the heart of the Residence in Munich, contains one of the most fascinating jewels of seventeenth century art: ten scenes from the life of Mary, created in scagliola by Wilhelm Fistulator (1600-1610). |
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Knights of Sicily |
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A collection of Sicilian puppets, nineteenth century warriors of wood and tin that represent the Paladins of Charlemagne and their Saracen enemies, conserved in the University of Austin,Texas. |
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The Virtuoso Sacellum |
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The magnificence of marble and the splendour of precious stones in the Chapel of Santa Margherita in San Lorenzo Maggiore, Naples, a Baroque masterpiece created between 1642 and 1655 by Cosimo Fanzago and Andrea Bolgi for the eternal rest of a wealthy Partenopean lawyer. |
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Libri enarrant gloriam Dei |
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An airy casket of carved shelves, frescoes, statues and stucco on a Swabian hill above the waters of the Danube houses the library of the Benedictine Convent of Wiblingen, built around 1740. |
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