Word: chapel
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Giotto's genius is definitively preserved in Padua in a small chapel completely decorated in powerful renditions of the life of the Virgin Mary and the Passion of Christ. In each panel a few simple figures anchored in the foreground vividly act out the joy, grief, fear and pity of the Christian story. Giotto's gift lay in transforming the viewer into a participant: people felt as if they could touch holy figures Ruskin once called "Mama, Papa and the Baby...
Best Building The chapel at Ronchamp, France by Le Corbusier...
11th century San Marco, Venice. The Doge's chapel was modeled on a now destroyed church in the rival--and more splendid--metropolis Constantinople. But as it prospered, Venice both updated and preserved San Marco's splendor: five shallow Byzantine brick domes were covered over by metal ones. The 320-ft. campanile, foreground, raised in 912, collapsed in 1902. It was rebuilt in 1912--on its 1,000th birthday...
...every Thursday morning, Rev. Peter J. Gomes has descended the suspended stairwell of his grand yellow house on Kirkland Street, strolled to the Yard and taken his usual seat in Appleton Chapel...
Levin's funeral takes place today at 11 a.m. in the Levine Chapel in Brookline. Friends and colleagues plan to set up a Murray Levin Scholarship fund for under-privileged children to continue his legacy...