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...Worse. In Ventura, Calif., Police Lieutenant Ray Rude arrested Lenwood Andrew Jeanne as he left a wedding chapel with his new bride, impounded the wedding ring, accused Jeanne of purchasing it with a bad check, booked him on suspicion of forgery...
Recognizing the beauty of Assisi's Temple of Minerva, the citizens turned it into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Correggio, commissioned to paint edifying decorations for a convent, included a Punishment of Juno to point up the perils of false pride. Taddeo di Bartolo decorated the chapel in Siena's Public Palace with a procession of Roman virtues-Prudence, Force, Magnanimity, Justice-plus Jupiter in his sun-god aspect, Mars thundering by in a boxlike chariot. Minerva. Apollo, Aristotle, Caesar, and the Roman general Manius Curius Dentatus...
Parnassus in the Vatican. Agostino Chigi, the Rockefeller to 16th century Rome, was a firm believer in astrology (a pagan holdover), yet pious too. The meaning of the decorations he ordered for his burial chapel in Rome's Church of Santa Maria del Popolo is obviously that the lives of men are subject to the planets, which are in turn subject to God. Raphael, who painted the pagan divinity Galatea for Chigi's palace, also made the Vatican shine with Christian and pagan subjects, depicting the company of the saints and a synod of ancient sages opposite...
...hand for the dedication, Le Corbusier proudly proclaimed: "The Christian drama has henceforth taken possession of this spot. I hand over to you this chapel made of loyal cement, molded with boldness, with courage ..." Replied Besançon's Archbishop Duchet: "I have the honor to bless the most modern chapel in the world...
...archbishop, who feels that modern is as modern does, cautiously decided to let a year or two pass before final consecration. He wanted to see if the chapel in practice inspires the proper mood for prayer. As far as Le Corbusier and the proud village owners are concerned, Our Lady's new concrete chapel has already proved that it will...