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Timeless Image. People already go by the thousands to another Corbu master piece: the Chapel of Ronchamp, which crowns one of the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It is a place for pilgrimage, a looming form that commands the entire countryside from horizon to horizon. Ronchamp is architecture as pure image, and few images more powerful or more timeless have ever been placed before the eye. It is strange that a man who has shown so few signs of religious feeling should have produced so awesome a place of worship. But this is no odder than the fact that...
...Society (conductor: Elliot Forbes '40) will join forces Sanders Theater in concert of music by Schutx, Tallis, Haydx and Schumann, in addition to excerpts from Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and three contemporary madrigals. 8:30 P.M. Special student tickets $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 at the Coop or at Holden Chapel...
...painters named Zavattari began the most ambitious project of their lives in the Basilica of San Giovanni in the small northern Italian town of Monza. Just how long they worked or how many of them there were, no one knows for sure, but when they were done, the chapel walls sparkled like pages out of an illuminated manuscript (see color). There, in 40-odd glowing frescoes, was the life and legend of Queen Theodolinda, who had ruled over the Lombards some 900 years before and was still cherished in memory...
...Author Stone, but he fleetingly pursues the theory that Michelangelo combined the Greek pagan ideal of beauty with a profoundly Christian spirit. This will convince only those who find something specifically Christian in Michelangelo's works. It is equally possible to argue that the god of the Sistine Chapel comes from Olympus and that the finger he reaches out to Adam is a linking of minds between Renaissance man and his humanist Greek forebears across the medieval abyss...
Such questions, of course, pale beside blurbissimo writing. This is Michelangelo painting the figures of the Sistine Chapel ceiling: "Each one had to be pushed out of his artistic womb, pushed out by his own inarticulate frenzied force. He must gather within himself his galvanic might; his burgeoning seed must be generated each day anew within his vitals, hurtled into space, projected onto the ceiling, given life everlasting. Though he was creating God the Father, he himself was God the Mother ... on his lonely truckle bed high in the heavens, going through parturition to deliver a race of immortals...