S. Monk, Thelonious Monk's son, filled stage changeovers with stories of his beginnings as a drummer, alongside his father.
The auction house's George Gordon said that the way the monk's head was turned to one side created an impression of spontaneity as opposed to the more formal composition of Rubens' portraits.
BBC: Portrait of a Carmelite Monk by Van Dyck, circa 1617 to 1620
He also said the brushwork was clearly legible throughout - a trait of Van Dyck's when he was working in Rubens' studio - and that the use of thick paint in the monk's habit was also characteristic.
BBC: Portrait of a Carmelite Monk by Van Dyck, circa 1617 to 1620
Six years after Monk's death, Nica passed away, aged 74, after undergoing a heart valve operation.
His orange monk's robes, hitched up to show stout boots and socks, would tangle in the bushes.
Then, fingering the line, he waits, with a monk's tireless patience and the concentration of a chess player.
By then, the acceptance of modern jazz had created the public taste required to appreciate Monk's particular tang.
The monk's lack of insistence the previous evening had been designed to avoid the rudeness of contradicting his visitors' preferences.
That day we heard him composing what would turn out to be "Ruby, My Dear, " one of Monk's most admired signature compositions.
Later, Barron co-founded the quartet Sphere, dedicated to Thelonious Monk's music.
Through the 1960s, Monk's fame grew, while his creativity began to stagnate.
In Monk's last years, he suffered from mental health problems and withdrew from playing jazz altogether by secluding himself in Nica's New Jersey home.
Another was Maria Monk's "Awful Disclosures, " a sensational penny-dreadful which pretended to lay bare the secrets of the lurid life behind the walls of a 19th century convent.
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The Monk Institute's programs now include international outreach tours and an elite postgraduate program whose alumni include Mr. Stranahan.
But Glasgow swimmer Renwick, 22, came back to win in a time of 1:47.88, ahead of Australia's Kenrick Monk and Thomas Fraser-Holmes.
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Recently Corinne "Coco" Leyre, from France, was initiated as a monk of the women's order in a secret ceremony.
He funded the fourth floor of Monk Bar, the city's 14th Century gateway, and a small museum dedicated to him can be found within its walls.
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In the 1950s, Dave Brubeck was jazz's resident intellectual (Thelonious Monk the eccentric, Charles Mingus the rebel, Miles Davis the movie star).
The monk was a caretaker at the Tiger's Lair, a sacred cave shrine perched high on the cliff-face of a granite mountain.
That and popular original series like Monk and Psych have helped raise USA Network's operating net revenue 42% since Gaspin took over.
If you go deeper back in time, you meet the city's patron and founder, the warrior monk Colmcille or Saint Columba, who founded the missionary movement that helped bring Europe out of the Dark Ages.
Sotheby's London is to auction a portrait of a monk, credited to Anthony van Dyck, that was previously thought to have been painted by Rubens.
BBC: Portrait of a Carmelite Monk by Van Dyck, circa 1617 to 1620
Master Chinhsing, a Buddhist monk of Vietnamese origin who may have been Ching Hai's mentor, disapproves of her departure from the austere ways of Buddhist tradition.
Founded in 1802, the abbey is home to a 70-strong brotherhood who were content to make juice from the orchard's abundant apples and plums until a visionary German monk named Father Rainer Verborg arrived in 2001.
The night after the finals, Mr. Brown played Manhattan's Jazz Standard, supporting pianist Gerald Clayton (a Monk finalist in 2006).
The monk who greeted them asked if they would like to view the temple's Buddha statue.
This year, he won the Akutagawa, Japan's equivalent of a Booker Prize, for his debut novel about a Catholic monk in 15th-century France.
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But it was on Manhattan's 52nd Street that Roach started experimenting with harmony and melody alongside Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
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