Sunday, December 27, 2009

THE SACRED MADE REAL



Gregorio Fernández's sculpture Dead Christ (1625–30); behind it Jusepe de Ribera's painting The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c1620), both from the Sacred Made Real exhibition, National Gallery, London. Photograph: Sarah Lee



Basra, Iraq: Shia Muslim worshippers, stained by their own blood from self inflicted wounds, hold knives during the festival of Ashura
Photograph: Nabil al-Jurani/AP

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