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March 23 - May 8, 2020
Opening statements were like the opening credits of a film.
how good he is at controlling things, sculpting things.”
reelected by the highest percentage of any incumbent judge in the county.
Bob’s Donuts.
Raised glaze.
so dark there was almost no delineation between iris and pupil.
Still, they were always moving, observing. He sat leaning slightly forward, as if ready to move.
the squad lieutenant
To McCaleb, Van Nuys was always synonymous with car lots. They were all over, new and used.
Not too long after that he went out one night and didn’t come home. They found him in his car up in the tunnel in Griffith Park near the observatory.”
the girl on the hill,
seeing through the darkness is seeing the truth.
early medieval through late Renaissance periods.
evil.”
doom, the enemy of innocence, the Devil himself, heresy, folly, death and misfortune, the bird of darkness, and finally, the torment of the human soul in its inevitable journey to eternal damnation.
symbol of wrath as well as the punishment of evil.
Bruegel
Van Oostanen and Dürer.
part of the northern Renaissance.
Bosch.
unsettling.
an expert on Northern Renaissance painting
the Getty
tram ride up,
a descendant piece in the conservation studio.
the Prado.
curatorial assistant.
catalogue raisonné
one of the finest conservation studios in the world.
a student of Bosch’s or a painter from his studio
“Penelope Fitzgerald,
“A darkness more than night.”
the swirling darkness above the flames.
The Garden of Earthly Delights.
the Prado in Madrid.
doomsayer.
existence of demons everywhere.
contemporary of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael.
“Beware, beware, God sees.”
the seven deadly sins.”
the worst sin of all in Bosch’s world being lust.
Annabelle Crowe,
the witnesses he was responsible for vetting and preparing for trial.
thermometer in every room in the house.
give him enough time to be ready for what he hoped she would allow him to do that night.
Little Girl Lost case
Frankie Sheehan.
how to approach and evaluate the forty-six men on the list.
Victor Seguin.
book called The Collector,
