Word: chapels
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...came to pass that in America in 1970 there was a generation of young people who were in the habit of attending loosely programmed outdoor chapel meetings known here and there as love-ins, be-ins or demonstrations and punctuated, more or less, with the admonition, "Peace and love, pass it on." That was the year that Rinpoche came to these shores, taking off like a Roman candle lit at both ends. He traveled and taught indefatigably, setting up scores of urban meditation and study centers, the two most prominent in Boulder and in Barnet, Vt. He had tapped...
...historians write the text for each of thetapes, and Markow's mother narrates them."Artwalks" currently includes three tapes whichcost $14.95 each: Notre Dame Paris/Chartres; St.Peter's/The Sistine Chapel; and FlorenceDuomo/Baptistry/Campanile. Markow said that theyare planning to do more tapes, with a goal ofseven titles by next year, including some sites inEngland and possibly America...
Illustrations of the conserved frescoes published to date show only details taken from the scaffolding under artificial light. But the cleaning is ultimately to be judged from the floor of the Sistine Chapel, as originally viewed by Michelangelo's contemporaries, with the full stretch of the ceiling bathed in natural light from the upper windows. So viewed, the frescoes are clear, strong and wonderfully harmonious -- fully in keeping with the central Italian fresco tradition...
...vast barrel vault itself was relatively pristine; it did not need cleaning. The frescoes now present a fresh Michelangelo whose tie has been straightened to the strangulation point and whose ears are scoured until the ears themselves disappear. The "conservation" that has been done on the Sistine Chapel may be good for tourism, but it is death for the frescoes...
...separated. Consider a medieval edifice like the Amiens Cathedral. If it were sandblasted to its original surface, the building would be out of keeping with the surrounding medieval structures and would emerge as a distasteful visual anachronism. A close examination of your color illustrations reveals that the Sistine Chapel's uncleaned surfaces have a warmth of spirit that is absent in the cleaned areas. The vitality of the "old" Michelangelo is absent in the bland, dispirited imagery that has emerged...