Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regal apartments become threadbare and bleak. But in August 1612, El Greco, then 71, roused himself for a final great undertaking, the towering, 11½-ft. altarpiece, The Adoration of the Shepherds, painted to decorate his own tomb in the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. In it, the Christ Child becomes a glowing pearl, illuminating with otherworldly radiance the three adoring shepherds and St. Joseph in his blue tunic and yellow cloak. Presiding over the scene that soars heavenward like a mighty Gloria in Excelsis is the figure of Mary. The oval face, pointed chin and downcast eyes...
...subject, The Book of Miracles (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $5). Protestants and Jews may believe in miracles as they see fit; Catholics must believe in their existence, but it is not heretical for them to doubt any given miracle except the Immaculate Conception, the Virgin Birth, or the Resurrection of Christ. What then, is a true miracle...
...Testament miracles are quite different. Instead of earthquakes and lightning, the immobilizing of heavenly bodies and the annihilation of cities, Jesus changes water into wine, gives sight to the blind, feeds multitudes with an armful of fishes and loaves. Christ's miracles proceed, as it were, from a creative force revealing itself in life, rather than impinging on life to make men stare...
...Catherine Labouré (1830), who heard the rustle of silk one night and received instructions from Mary herself about the miraculous medal that is now worn by hundreds of thousands. Stigmatists exist today who, like the first of them, St. Francis of Assisi, exhibit the wounds of Christ's crucifixion...
...After the war he returned to Germany, only to have the Nazis in 1939 declare his art "degenerate." Hopelessly crippled by arthritis, only able to hold his brush painfully with both hands and paint with shoulder movements, Jawlensky devoted his last years to small, dully glowing, abstract heads of Christ. His final works before his death in 1941 were basically meditations. Said he: "Great art can only be created with religious feeling. Art is longing...