As Giorgio Vasari's The
Apotheosis of Cosimo 1 (painted in the mid-1560s and gracing the cover of the book) illustrates perfectly, by the last decade of the Medici duke's reign he had achieved a secure sacral identity as a divine prince.
Jacobs-Jenkins indicated that August Wilson, the
apotheosis of black theatre, did not have characters he could "feel himself' in; but I imagine that in Douglas Turner Ward's Day of Absence he could identify with the blacks who were "absent." As you may know, that drama was played by blacks in "white-face." Feel that thought!
They had suffered discrimination, injustice and pogroms and the
apotheosis was the holocaust imposed by the Nazis.
Each is credited with one of the five chapters, which address the types and uses of staircases, lessons learned in the period 1100-1600, staircases as theaters of power (1600-1800) and as the
apotheosis of ornament (1800-1900), and art nouveau to the present day.
In a really good performance the hyper-romantic
apotheosis, as Prince Charming arrives to awaken Sleeping Beauty, should bring a lump to the throat - this one did.
"Sport is no longer a release from the harsh everyday American business world but its continuation and
apotheosis. Those of us (fans and players alike) who return to the ball park in the belief that the game and the rules are unchanged--merely a continuation of what we have known and loved in the past--are deluding ourselves, perhaps foolishly, perhaps tragically."
"Faith" will find congregants at fests, but the trilogy will achieve its true
apotheosis on ancillary.
At five foot, six inches, the New Yorker, who goes by the name
Apotheosis, was shorter than the average American male and very unhappy about it.
The
Apotheosis represented the absolute consumption of the Vita Christiana: it marked the passage from the terrestrial to the celestial sphere of the physical dematerialization of the saint through fire.
The Oxford English Dictionary, that
apotheosis of the lexicographer's art, is bowing to the times and eyeing an all-digital future.
"Dead Forever
Apotheosis" is the second novel in the Dead Forever series, as William Campbell continues his series as the conflict spills onto other planets bring more into the war.