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...guarded by twin impregnable towers, was inspired by the donjons that the feudal barons built along the Seine and the Loire at the end of the 11th century, but in English cathedrals like Wells (constructed between 1186 and 1300) it acquired a definitive grandeur as the sign of the Church Militant. No cathedral will fit in the Royal Academy, but other things have. To see the engrafting of a high ecclesiastical and court style from across the Channel onto the Anglo-Saxon stock, set forth in these objects, many of which are of the highest aesthetic quality, is fascinating...
...small way with the random acts of zealots like the Lollards. They were enraged by the apparent contradiction between the Second Commandment ("Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image") and the "idolatrous" cult of statues of the Holy Family and the saints set up in English churches, jeweled and gilt and encrusted with innumerable votive offerings. The church's answer was that you did not worship the image itself; you worshiped the Virgin through her image -- a nice point apt to be lost on rustic fundamentalists...
Today, for instance, not a single English 13th century wooden crucifix figure survives in England; to find a probable example, the organizers of this show had to borrow an exquisite polychrome Christ from Norway, where it had been made by a traveling English artist for a church in Bergen around 1230-45. Just as in the greatest monuments of English Gothic today -- the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, say -- one sees only the bare background of a decorative and sculptural scheme whose figural richness can never be restored or even reimagined, so the remains of medieval sculpture that have been...
...author might be interested to know that we have several complaints from students about what they regard as the manipulative techniques of the Boston Church of Christ. We hope he would agree that the destructive activity of any religious organization both deserves and requires public scrutiny...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, Tom Callahan, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...