Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church with a new kind of paganism. The new convent of San Domenico, then less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent Fra Dominici, raised up against the New Learning the stern teachings of the church fathers: "Christ is our only guide to happiness . . . our father, our leader, our light, our food, our redemption, our way, our truth, our life." Fra Dominici exhorted the young monks: "As the years of tender youth flow by, the soft wax may take on any form. Stamp on it the impress...
...Will Be Done." Two conflicting traditions of religious painting, almost as old as Christendom, are revealed in Fra Angelico's early work. The Virgin of the Star, where the Christ child tenderly reassures his mother, is one of the few paintings in which Fra Angelico yielded to the popular taste for the sentimental. The future glory of Fra Angelico's work is first declared in the Annunciation scene done for the church of San Domenico in Cortona (see p. 54). Here the Virgin sits serenely with hands folded across her breast in a gesture that sums...
...Angelico obviously preferred working for his brothers at San Domenico, but he was given little time to carry out his wishes. The Coronation of the Virgin (see p. 35) was his last work at Fiesole, and even in this the figures of the Virgin and Christ were left to be finished by another hand...
...monastery walls of San Marco. Fra Angelico concentrated on the simple devotional images required by his fellow monks for their meditations and prayers. The results, seen in the six cells definitely painted by Fra Angelico, represent Fra Angelico at his strongest and purest. To portray The Mocking of Christ, he painted a regal, blindfolded Christ figure crowned with thorns; the throng of jeering soldiery appear only as a group of disembodied hands and a loutish head, cap raised in sarcasm, spitting upon Christ. By abstracting all but the essential central image, Fra Angelico makes the eye travel through a curve...
Captain of the team will be Harold Fey (rhymes with sigh), 57, a Disciples of Christ minister who joined the Century in 1940, became managing editor in 1947 and executive editor in 1952. "I wish Hutchinson were going to continue, and that's the fact of the matter," he said last week. "All I can say is that I will make a pious resolution to do the best I can, and hope for a special endowment of grace from...