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Vatican Objections. In the deft sweep of his lines and the religious themes that dominate his work, Manzù is unmistakably an heir of Renaissance tradition. Yet his sculpture has not always pleased a church that takes pride in the Michelangelo who painted St. Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother...
VATICAN. Some 78,000 people daily have been viewing the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture, also from the Vatican's vast collection...
...John's Seminary near Los Angeles one morning last week, the Rev. William Du Bay entered the chapel, genuflected before James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, put his hand on a Bible in the cardinal's lap, and made a profession of loyalty to him. Then, as hundreds of priests watched, Du Bay kissed the cardinal's hands and withdrew. A week earlier, Father Du Bay had publicly petitioned the Pope to remove Mclntyre as Archbishop of Los Angeles, charging the cardinal with "gross malfeasance in office" for what he called his superior's failure to condemn racism...
...weighing 11 Ibs.). The text is learned, dull and clumsily translated. What almost justifies the outrageous price is the color plates, which display every surviving work that Michelangelo painted, including each panel and major figure in his ceiling frescoes and Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel. The reproduction is generally good, though a trifle hard-edged; the color, for the most part, avoids the unnatural keying-up that afflicts so many art books...
VATICAN. Some 70.000 people daily have been filing past the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture lent by St. Peter...