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...knows what great nobleman built the apse. It must have been part of a castle, church or chapel that loomed over a once thriving town. Most of the tiny sculptures that decorate it are still intact, but the fresco that presumably brightened the interior was long since washed away. The Cloisters was not dismayed: it already owned a magnificent fresco of a seated Madonna painted by the 12th century Master of Pedret. The fresco was a bit small, but once set in the new apse, it seemed perfectly at home. After 26 years The Cloisters had its golden treasure...
...Vanderbilt faculty, Lawson was expelled from the university's divinity school (TIME, June 13, 1960) for advocating civil disobedience to fellow students who took part in Nashville's sit-in campaigns. Lawson went on to get his degree from Boston University, now is pastor of the Scott Chapel Methodist Church in Shelbyville, Tenn. Between religious services, he teaches workshops in "nonviolent action" and acts as vice president of the Nashville Christian Leadership Conference...
...these characteristics appear in Le Corbusier's famous style and are particularly well illustrated in the examples from the Ronchamp Chapel, of which you printed such fine pictures...
Having propped up Paeng Yong's economy and welfare almost singlehanded, Father Moffett turned to matters of the spirit. He built a Quonset chapel, and church members built 13 other small churches on the three main islands, donating land and labor. Catholic membership rose from 417 to 3,100. (There are 1,000 Protestants, 5,000 Buddhists...
...getting started. He began as the architectural prophet of the machine age, the poet of the mass-produced. Yet his recent buildings in India are in a sense almost handmade. He was all logic in his city planning, almost wholly geometric in his early houses; but his newer Ronchamp Chapel and the monastery of La Tourette are romantic sculptural explosions that seem to contradict everything he said before...