#Leopold Bauer

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Georg MERKEL (1881-1976) “Liebende” (um 1920) - “Lovers” (c. 1920)

Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on Canvas Privatsammlung / Private Collection Johannes BAUER Ausstellung / Exhibition HAGENBUND - Von der gemäßigten zur radikalen Moderne HAGENBUND - From moderate to radical Modernism LEOPOLD MUSEUM Wien / Vienna - 2022/23

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Leopolds Gastauftritt in der letzten Folge💙 Sehr sneaky von euch:-)

Zu Christian Bauers und Daniels Antworten bei der Premiere: Für mich klingt das schon ein bisschen unterschiedlich? Bei Christian Bauer wirkt es so, als hätte Adam schon ewig den festen Plan gehabt, zurückzukommen, und hätte genau im Auge behalten, was in Saarbrücken und mit Leo gerade los ist, um die richtige Gelegenheit zu erwischen, und bei Daniel eher, als wäre das eine unbewusste, vielleicht auch spontane Entscheidung gewesen? Vielleicht interpretiere ich da auch zu viel rein. Ist die landläufige Meinung eigentlich, dass Adam sich selber verboten hat, herauszufinden, was aus Leo geworden ist, vielleicht weil es zu arg weggetan hat, und einfach irgendwann schwach geworden ist, oder wusste er immer, dass Leo Polizist geworden ist und sein Vater nie aus dem Koma aufgewacht oder gestorben ist?

Jedenfalls vieln lieben Dank für die Audiopsie und ich freu mich schon auf etwaige Sonderfolgen, die da noch kommen mögen:-)

Hi! Ja, das kann man definitiv so sehen. Gerade Daniels Reaktion von wegen "Das hab ich so aber nicht gespielt" fand ich so witzig, dass ich das unbedingt im Podcast haben wollte.

Ob es eine landläufige Meinung dazu gibt, ob Adam die ganze Zeit "tabs" on Leo hatte oder nicht, weiß ich gar nicht. Persönlich tendiere ich eher zu Ersterem. Adam wirkt auf mich, als wenn er sich absichtlich aus all dem rausgehalten hat, vielleicht in der Hoffnung, zu vergessen/verdrängen, was passiert ist (und seine Gefühle für Leo maybe hehe), aber dass er zurückgekommen ist, spricht natürlich dafür, dass es nicht geklappt hat...

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Dopo Roma, Trieste e Cuneo, la quarta città italiana per numero di deportati nei campi di concentramento e di sterminio nazisti fu la città quarnerina di Fiume.

Le leggi razziali colpirono particolarmente gli ebrei fiumani: esse decretavano infatti la revoca della cittadinanza italiana per tutti gli ebrei italiani che l’avessero ottenuta dopo il 1919, e Fiume era stata annessa all’Italia solamente nel 1924. Dopo la promulgazione delle leggi, circa 350 ebrei furono costretti ad abbandonare Fiume.

Tra questi Elisabetta Reich, che fuggirà a Firenze ma verrà denunciata e deportata ad Auschwitz nel 1944, dove perderà il marito e il padre.

Elisabetta Reich ad Abbazia, in Istria

Dopo la resa incondizionata dell’8 settembre, Fiume verrà occupata dai nazisti.

La meravigliosa Sinagoga Grande di Fiume, opera dell’architetto ungherese Leopold Baumhorn, che durante la guerra era stata protetta dalle autorità italiane, verrà distrutta dai nazisti il 25 gennaio del 1944. La più piccola sinagoga ortodossa, costruita dall’architetto ungherese Győzo Angyal e dall’architetto italiano Pietro del Fabbro, verrà invece risparmiata.

Dei 243 ebrei rastrellati e deportati solo 19 sopravviveranno e faranno ritorno a Fiume.

Tra questi l’antifascista Angelo Adam, sopravvissuto agli orrori di Dachau. Tornato a Fiume, ormai occupata dai titini, verrà da questi ucciso insieme alla moglie Ernesta Stefancich e alla figlia diciassettenne Zulema, perché contrario alle mire espansionistiche jugoslave. Medesima sorte subirono tutti coloro che non supportarono il piano d’annessione della città alla Jugoslavia, fossero essi filo-italiani o autonomisti. Tra i fiumani filo-italiani assassinati dai titini a guerra finita vi furono anche il senatore Riccardo Gigante, sposato con l’ebrea Edit Therney, e Carlo Colussi, mentre tra gli autonomisti si ricordano Mario Blasich, Nevio Skull, Giovanni Rubini, Mario De Hajnal, Giuseppe Sincich, Gino Sirola e Radoslav Baucer.

Tra gli ebrei fiumani sopravvissuti alla Shoah ricordiamo le sorelle Tatiana (1937) e Andra Bucci (1939), deportate ad Auschwitz e scelte come cavie per Josef Mengele. Il cugino Sergio De Simone (1937), di sette anni, sarà invece assassinato a Neuengamme.

Tatiana e Andra Bucci con Sergio De Simone

Arianna Szörényi (1933) fu deportata prima con la famiglia alla Risiera di San Sabba, poi ad Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Ravensbrück e infine a Bergen-Belsen. Tra i suoi familiari deportati, solo il fratello Alessandro tornerà vivo da Buchenwald.

Arianna Szörényi all’età di tredici anni

Goti Bauer (1924), nata Berehove ma cresciuta a Fiume, fu deportata prima ad Auschwitz e infine a Theresienstadt. Sarà l’unica sopravvissuta della sua famiglia: perderà i genitori, la sorellastra e il fratello Tiberio.

Goti Bauer

La memoria degli ebrei fiumani e istro-quarnerini in Italia sembra essere legata quasi esclusivamente al mondo ebraico e giuliano-dalmata, quasi come vi fosse stata, immediatamente dopo il 1947, una damnatio memoriae nei confronti della storia di quelle terre perdute. Terre che, anche se molti italiani lo hanno dimenticato, erano italiane non solo per motivi legali, ma anche per motivi storico-culturali e demografici, e nelle quali l’italianità sopravvive ancora grazie alle Comunità degli Italiani ivi rimasti.

Pietre d’inciampo bilingui a Fiume

Fonti

Gli ebrei a Fiume dal ’600 al ’900

Ebrei di Fiume in transito a Udine per Auschwitz 1944-1945. Riflessioni

Elisabetta Reich, ebrea di Fiume, sopravvissuta ad Auschwitz

Sopravvissuto a Dachau e ucciso nelle foibe, l’incredibile storia di Angelo Adam

Alice Salvatore: «Vi racconto chi era Nevio Skull»

Fiume. Tempio Israelitico

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Competition project for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vienna Architect Leopold Bauer.

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Leopold Bauer, First note on an architectural idea, c. 1901

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Department Store “Breda” (1926-28) in Opava, Czech Republic, by Leopold Bauer

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Leopold Bauer, 1905

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There is a picture of Mark Seibert in a Vienna 2003-2005 Der Tod costume in a concert I saw somewhere, and I saw you post a gif of it. Did you by any chance find where it was from? I'd love to see if other Vienna production costumes made it to that concert... I personally dislike the anachronistic/overly modern look of that generic leather coat and vest for Der Tod in the tour. He's supposed to be this other-worldly entity... also the absence of mayerling dress... sad. Thanks for reading!

I did! There were two concerts help in Tokyo, the first being in 2008 and the second in 2013. They were called 'Wien Musical Concert' and 'Wien Musical Concert II'. In the first it was Máte as Der Tod and the second has Mark as Der Tod (and also as Colloredo before he was ever officially cast as Colloredo and oh no they put him in a terrible black wig like how Uwe Kröger had his hair in the original Mozart production and it looks terrible on him why would they do that to him).

As far as I know there is no full boot of that concert, but there are some videos promoting it and there are videos of the bows so you can see Mark in both the 2003 Vienna Revival main costume (the black suit with the blue lapels) and the 2003 Vienna Revival finale costume.

Wien Musical Concert had performances from Elisabeth, Tanz der Vampire, Mozart, Rebecca and Roméo et Juliette (which I find interesting that it wasn't just a Kunze/Levay concert) (info from cast album):

Andre Bauer as Graf von Krolock/Mercutio/Lord Capulet/Frank Crawley/Maxim de Winter/Leopold Mozart/Max/Franz-Joseph Marjan Shaki as Sarah/Juliet/Ich/Constanze Weber/Elisabeth Lukas Perman as Alfred/Romeo/Wolfgang Mozart/Rudolf Maya Hakvoort as Madga/Nurse/Mrs. van Hopper/Mrs Danvers/Baronin von Waldstätten/Elisabeth Máté Kamarás as Graf von Krolock/Benvolio/Colloredo/Der Tod

Wien Musical Concert II had performances from Tanz der Vampire, Elisabeth, Rudolf, Rebecca, Mozart, Roméo et Juliette (info from the short clips in the trailers):

Kevin Tarte as Graf von Krolock Yngve Gasoy-Romdal as Wolfgang Mozart Annemieke van Dam as Mary Vetsera/Elisabeth/Sarah Lukas Perman as Rudolf (Rudolf and Elisabeth)/Romeo/Schikaneder Maya Hakvoort as Baronin von Waldstätten/Elisabeth Mark Seibert as Colloredo/Tybalt/Der Tod Ock Joo-Hyun as Mrs Danvers/Elisabeth

Here are all the videos that I know exist for the Wien Musical Concert 2:

Trailer 1 (shots from the concert, includes Mark as Der Tod): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bx41167tp Bows (Mark and Maya in the finale Elisabeth costumes): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bx41167tp?p=2 Trailers for each individual cast member (no shots from the concert, only previous recordings of the cast): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1vx411v7SB?p=1 Mark and Lukas rehearsing Die Schatten: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1tW411V7fN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NU-xaMVDYw Rehearsal of the ball from RetJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhUFevKGQ5c More ball rehearsal, but this time in costume with Lukas and Mark sitting at the back watching and Mark has no shirt on for some reason AND Mark as Der Tod in costume (maybe I gasped at finding this, look at his curly hair while he's in this costume I wish he'd looked like this in the actual production) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAGToavgjdo Lukas rehearsing Ein bissel für's Hirn und ein bissel für's Herz and Mark rehearsing Ich bin schuldlos, Kevin and Annemeike rehearsing Totale Finsternis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAOyEVkxlxU Maya rehearsing Gold von den Sternen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7dH570gK4A Rehearsals in costume, Kevin singing Die Unstilbare Gier, Annemeike and Lukas singing So viel mehr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OobdeXqJB20 Trailer 3 (sideshow) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_dlb-OE7GM This channel has all the individual cast trailers and some rehearsal videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/clavismishi/videos

Mark isn't in this concert, but thought I'd also put the few things that exist for Wein Musical Concert 1 here too:

Cast album: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoMVwfaWeCZNPRA7NfOOYvw/videos Lukas Perman performing Fur Sarah: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Wi4y1P7gf Máté Kamarás performing Rondo/Kein Kommen (interestingly in the Hungarian Der Tod costume and singing it in Japanese): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1WW411g7FQ Lukas performing Wie Wird Man Seinen Schatten Los https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Px411y78a

I don't think there was a cast album for Wien Musical Concert 2.

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University of Michigan Helps Solve Century Old Fossil Mystery - Part 1: Stearns and Bayet. The Dispute

by Joann Wilson and Albert Kollar

“I am reluctantly, arriving at the opinion, that I am the victim of an imposition for which I hold you responsible.” -Frederick Stearns in a letter to Ernest Bayet, March 27, 1889

Frederick Stearns, date unknown. Permission of the University of Michigan Stearns Collection.

In 1903, Andrew Carnegie purchased the world-famous Bayet fossil collection for the Carnegie Museum. Since that time some invertebrates in the massive 130,000 specimen collection have been thoroughly studied, but the documents that arrived with the fossil shipment remained largely unexamined. Reasons for this neglect are understandable. The collection’s accompanying letters, lists, journals, and other documents were written primarily in French, German, and Italian, and in what has been described as “an impenetrable hand.”

Translation of the documents into English was a critical step in making them better known to researchers and the public. As part of Albert Kollar’s multiyear project to restudy the invertebrate portion of the Bayet Collection, that difficult task is ongoing thanks to volunteer Lucien Schoenmakers, a resident of the Netherlands.

The translated documents bring some life to the people behind the famous fossils, and our series begins with one of them, Frederick Stearns.

Which gets us back to the letter excerpted above. One wonders what Ernest Bayet thought in the spring of 1889 when he opened it. Bayet, who would become secretary to the cabinet of Leopold II, and Frederick Stearns of Detroit, Michigan, a retired pharmaceutical executive, business owner, and renowned fossil collector, had settled on a sizable trade deal. Stearns was to send over “1000 species of fossils” from the United States. In return, Bayet was to ship “5500 species of shells.”

One of the Frederick Stearns fossils in the Bayet Collection at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Horn Coral, Cyathophyllum, CM# 51102. On the bottom is an original Frederick Stearns label that survived crossing the Atlantic Ocean twice.

Stearns had shipped his lot of fossils, but by spring of 1889, he had yet to receive a shipment from Bayet. Fuming, he wrote, “to obtain legal redress through the advice of the American Minister at Brussels. Failing in this I stand ready to spend 2500 francs or even 5000 francs if necessary, to advertise you, and your way of doing things to the Scientific World. In doing which I shall at least have the satisfaction of check mating any similar future operations of the sort with other persons as credulous of your honor and integrity.” In current figures, Stearns was willing to spend $15,000-$30,000.

Stearns ended, “with this for warning, I subscribe myself indignantly etc.” After this letter, no more correspondence is known to exist between the two men. Did Bayet send his lot? As part of Albert’s project to investigate the individuals behind the Bayet Collection, we wondered, was it possible to solve this mystery over a century later?

Research into Stearns revealed that he collected more than fossils and shells. Carol Stepanchuk, Collection Outreach Program Coordinator for the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments at the University of Michigan, provided a valuable starting point. With her guidance, and a hunch that Stearns may have left his other collections to the University of Michigan, we reached out across the Ann Arbor campus to Jennifer Bauer, Research Museum Collection Manager at the University’s Museum of Paleontology. Jennifer added Taehwan Lee, the museum’s Mollusk Collection Manager, to the search. After many months, our story has a happy ending. Jennifer and Taehwan located over 5000 specimens in the U-M collections, donated by Frederick Stearns, with “Bayet” as collector. Thanks to museum collections records and the amazing team at U-M, we now know that Ernest Bayet did send his shells!

In Part 2 of our series, we will take a look at the unusual path that brought Frederick Stearns into contact with Ernest Bayet and fossil collecting. As John Carter, former Curator of the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural history, once wrote about the Bayet Collection, “The best measure of the worth of this treasure trove, however, is not its size but its uniqueness. Many of the individual collections, all made in the nineteenth century, are essentially irreplaceable, because similar specimens from the same collecting localities are no longer available.”

Many thanks to the generous contributions of Carol Stepanchuk, Collection Outreach Coordinator for the U-M Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, Joseph Gascho, Associate Professor at the U-M School of Music and Director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, Jennifer Bauer, Research Collection Manager at the U-M Museum of Paleontology, Taehwan Lee, Mollusk Collection Manager at the U-M Zoology Museum and volunteer Lucien Schoenmakers for meticulous language translation.

Joann Wilson is an Interpreter for the Education Department at Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Albert Kollar is Collections Manager for the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

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Vase by Leopold Bauer, 1901, Austria.

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Vase, possibly Leopold Bauer, Austrian (born Czech Republic), 1872–1938, designed 1901, Saint Louis Art Museum: Decorative Arts and Design

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/39291/

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Armchair, model no. 718 F/B, Otto Wagner, c. 1902, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Decorative Arts, Textiles and Sculpture

Yet to receive the credit he deserves, Otto Wagner was the patriarch of Viennese modernity. Among his students were Adolf Loos, Josef Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Leopold Bauer to name a few. This chair precedes a variant armchair (1904-06) designed for his famous Postal Savings Bank in Vienna. The chair form was subsequently produced commercially in several variations by J. & J. Kohn and the rival firm Gebrüder Thonet which likewise produced furnishings for the Savings Bank. Wagner was the first of his colleagues to incorporate aluminum into his interior elements and furniture. Size: 30 5/8 x 22 1/2 x 22 in. (77.79 x 57.15 x 55.88 cm) Medium: Ebonized beechwood with aluminum sabots and leather

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/60713/

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(( Content Warning for: Mentions of torture, specifically to the hands ))

"And our name in time shall be forgotten, and no man shall have any remembrance of our works.

For our time is as the passing of a shadow."

- Wisdom 2:4-5

The Society of Leopold has endured through centuries of sustained attacks, from secular and human violence to internal espionage. It is a rock tensed in the worn leather of a boy's handmade slingshot, a shot stag rising to speak in tongues of molten flame. It is a bloodied cross held aloft on a cold London night, with utter belief behind the trembling cry:

God will protect the innocent.

The Damned scoff and titter over the Society, seeing it's members as deluded bigots who are as apt to destroy a study meeting of mortal Wiccans as they are creatures of the night. Book burnings, the foam-mouthed preacher spewing bile and sulfurous hell for any who dare disobey, pitied and used in equal measure. To be killed by a hunter is to show that one's skills as a predator were not up to snuff, it's only natural selection at play.

This ignores the history of the Church. Political entity and infallible arbiter, beholden to none but herself, no matter how many Kindred boast of their hooks within the Vatican.

In the hallowed ranks of the Inquisitors, one group sits firmly above the common believer, those who's lives at any moment may be swiftly ended by tooth and claw. The Gladius Dei, 'God's Little Army", the veterans zealous and sure in duty. 

To attract their gaze is to feel Heaven's wrath, or so the whispers go, for no hunt they have called has ever failed. Think about that for a moment, about the simple truth of that record unbroken. Can the Camarilla claim such purity within their own dealings? Or the Sabbat, quick to natter about their denial of kine mores and great rebirth as alien predators, have stolen their structure to sniff out impious Cainites.

The Lasombra accept these uncomfortable realities more than any other clan, and turn them to suit their own designs. Let the Ventrue laugh at 'archaic witch-hunters', as they have laughed at Monçada's belief. Beneath years of loyal service, a quiet anger fills these men, dense and clinging to their bones like ash. The Shadows know the worth of this earned fury, honed spite-sharp. Let them test their teeth on the flesh of the Sabbat's enemies and be hardened for it.

The Iron Maiden of Austria lies in ease in the cool crags of the Alps, near Lofer. As the noises below die with the dusk's passing so too does she take repose, for one must take generous breaks for prayer and personal care. Three feet of stone keeps their coos muffed and silent as she enjoys a quiet meal of Jägertopf with mulled wine and spice to stimulate the appetite. 

Outside the wind rattles and taps at the window with sodden flakes of snow, the tips of tall pines wavering and bowing in the squall. The rustic cabin does not betray the solid foundations, bored into the mountain and guarded by three Condotierri hand picked by her. They know they will join her within it’s walls if they breathe a word of this place to anyone.

One of her charges will break soon, with thumbscrews spiraling clean through his fine pianist's fingers. The others, perhaps a few days, until their sins and secrets are wrung out and delivered to Inquisitor-General Carpaccio with the dedication and punctuality he has come to expect.

To do the will of God on earth, one must not shy from acts abhorred by the laws of men. This is what Ingrid Bauer knows, more than anything else, needs to be done. There is no patience for sympathizers, for the whinging bleeding-hearts more concerned with lofty ideals over the true goal; to purge each child of the Devil from Creation.

Get in the way of the path to Heaven, and be cast aside with the demons.

Her greatest triumph as of late, was to disgrace and expose that false Sword of God, at one time on the short list to be Provincial of Bavaria, Inquisitor Bach. The Censor-General grins into her soup at the memory of the unabashed revulsion in his eyes when they last met at his sentencing. Faith was the only thing that reactionary fossil had still had going for him, his belief in his rightness, his holier-than-thou insistence on 'the vile nature of torture.' Monseñor Amelio Carpaccio, blessed be, had always been too soft on his pet hunter, but even he could not save him from proper justice. It was only by his hand that the sentence was commuted to mere excommunication.

What sort of inveterate failure cannot kill one specific vampire in half a century? Bauer wondered if Bach had truly been that pathetic, or if the 'Archfiend' LaCroix was as indeed as powerful as he raved about. She would show this Prince what a real Inquisitor looked like, in due time.

For now, the storm had lessened, the wooden walls no longer lashed by the howling gusts. Florescent lights cast a pale glow on her silver hair as she stands, glass of warm mulled wine between her fingers.

Time to return to her music.

A quick scan of the cabin, as she laces up boots and prepares herself for the simple joy of the night to come. Snowdrifts crunch under her feet, a bark of static as she radios the Condotierri inside her sanctum with a few words in gruff, accented English.

"Open the door."

Only the wind and the lashing of the treetops replies. She repeats herself, insistent, tinged with that low tone of dampened rage,

"This is Iron. Open the door, immediately."

Bauer plummets to the bright snow, legs swept out from under her with exacting speed. The world is roaring sound and cold white and she scrambles to get to her feet.  She brings up a pistol, silver armor piercing rounds chambered within, and aims at the unassuming door down to her chambers.

A soft rumble of Bavarian greets her as the door spins wide, battering in the storm. It is too dark to see anything but an outline, a man-shape.  

"I will give you ten seconds.”

The traitor Bach, alive? What a fool. How long had she imagined him here, and now he was. No meager faith will save him from her caresses, from finding his traitorous secrets. The Censor laughs into the gale and then fires, recoil and noise forcing her to step back.

The bullet hurtles towards where she assumes his torso is, where the voice was, and then winks out of existence. A shadowed threshold, devoid of any sound and yet filled with that same sense of the divine, looms back at her. Snowflakes, glittering white, blow into the space and appear to melt, to become nothing within the dark. Little stars spinning in their bright glory; swallowed by a ravenous black maw. The silhouette smiles, a vile thing with too long teeth.

Ingrid Bauer spends her last moments running.

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THE NEW POPE - 1x08

I can’t believe these bitches are waiting until the FINAL EPISODE to put Law Pope and Malkovich Pope in the same room, but also that’s exactly what I would have done. I’m bitches.

Anyway the scene where Lenny and Voiello are plotting together and they bring back the Levo song from The Young Pope fueled me with a pure energy that burned bright and clean.

New Pope Live-Bloggin’ No. 8

Wait BALDY commands Essence?? In what capacity and to what ends???!

Describes Leopold Essence as “a ghostly figure.” God I’m so into the way Bauer sees the world. Who are you. And what do you do. For whom.

Me when I’ve moved on to a new show

His vape pen is now a little dude in a double-breasted jacket

Wanna place bets on the *last* thing Bauer tells Voiello being that Lenny is awake

Oh! Oh I am legitimately surprised that someone else killed Francis II before you could get there!

Oh wait you just mean LENNY? Outrageous, so fun

About as fun as transitioning from Voiello learning that Lenny’s back into his beach creds

Hah he’s still in his Steve Rogers streetwear disguise

I want Lenny to smile appreciably at me like this. Is this what it’s like to have daddy issues.

And a fridge stacked with Cherry Coke Zero, THEY LOVE HIM

Oh you’re NOT organized crime?

Wait are we supposed to think Faisal did it, because I absolutely do not. As if he would risk hurting his baby mama! As if the Syrian refugee would be like oh I know the answer: bombs. No!

the fucking aesthetic! tho! Brannox!

Gutierrez always expected Lenny to come back, FAITHFUL 😩

UM, extremely UMm, is Assente trying to keep Gutierrez away from Lenny???!! A Plot!!

Javier this face!! This combination of sad affront and ‘mf you can try..’

“How is your toy boy?” Ohhhh no

Calmly and clearly: “His name is Freddy, and I think he’s fine.” Bernardo you are an entire delight.

Bernardo Gutierrez: “I read [your tract] and complied.” Bernardo Gutierrez: “Did you.”

hOLY SHIT Don Cavallo!!??!! the Assente plot really kicking the fuck up here isn’t it!

I gasped SO LOUD at Sofia’s “intimate” act being to start applying mascara to Brannox’s eyelashes! Ugh god bless this show

I love Sofia, she’s so right about people being drawn to someone revealing a tenderly dorky side of themselves, because we feel embarrassed about ourselves too

Who is truly a punk though is Cardinal Gutierrez, straight up ignoring Assente’s order to not fraternize with Lenny, and fraternizing the hell out of Lenny, Gutierrez-style: showing him all the boxes of letters children sent him while he was in a coma, and revealing that of course he has read all of them

Sofia rolling over in her bed and turning into Adam is….something we’re not gonna unpack!

“I was too strung out on heroin so I just sat there, and watched him bleed to death.” Whoa.

Aaah this abrupt transition---where Brannox is, is dark, and where Lenny is, is bright. And fucking asking Voiello who he is, in front of a small round empty swimming pool somewhere in the Vatican. SORRENTINO.

Uuuuugh, that Levo track from S1 coming in again as Voiello lays out his plan to reintroduce Lenny as AN AGENT OF CATHOLIC CHAOS. Lenny smiling slyly! LOVE YOU TWO LIKE THIS. LOVE THIS.

This dance as they can’t figure out if they should hug or what oh my GOD I’m cackling. Silvio Orlando and Jude Law are like acting soulmates, so glad you found each other.

“Do you remember Adam’s millipede? He thought it was God, but he was wrong, it was Satan. Even Adam made mistakes.” [mildly] What The Fuck

The Abbess walking back and forth on the table between them oh my god

Voiello is still referring to Lenny as the Pope as he talks to Girolamo

Oh no Girolamo!

Hah you got him, Sister Lisette. So into the revolutionary nun, would follow on Nun Twitter.

Oh this rock formation is very cursed, I don’t like it

This is the episode where everyone’s like Voiello we need you, and Voiello doesn’t even gloat he’s just like ah thank you. It’s good!

This man with his clams and his flip phone, I just..

It’s a good eulogy, Voiello

Sister Lisette was working with Voiello to get that kompromat, fuck yeah. The Nunnery Secretary of State.

I mean Assente I do enjoy you, but you are also cruel and you have to go

Lenny hugging his loyal little nun friend, pure, I MAY have teared up, it’s fine!!

Jude Law oh my god. IMPOSSIBLE to explain what it’s like to have this face be a drop reveal.

HooOowwwWw is Essence is so unnerving!

I would be very interested in Bauer actually, for reals, being God. Like why not.

I appreciate the girl letting out a single victorious “Hah” and Brauer echoing it in support of her

Fuck I love when Lenny preaches MYSTERY

He praises the sisters for being “different, and mysterious,” in comparison to the priests, whom he finds kind of lame. THIS IS ALL SO LENNY. He’s controlling them, and he’s not being progressive, he’s being strict, but he’s also being kind of Greater than that? PIUS XIII

Wow INTENSE strobe effect over the doctor in Vienna being mobbed by photographers

Lenny is standing bare ass naked in flip flops in the empty pool, gazing at his embroidered papal robes. STILL worried tumblr’s gonna try to Block The Butt so leaving this up (if I can) as a special treat! Anyway finale next.

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The New Pope: First Episode, Second Episode, Third Episode, Fourth Episode, Fifth Episode, Sixth Episode, Seventh Episode

The Young Pope: Masterpost

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“Serenity and lightness” - Leopold Bauer, Brünn 1902.

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Leopold Bauer, proposal for a municipal building, c. 1901

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