Word: crucifixion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William D. Upshaw, Congressman from Georgia: " In a speech at a Baptist Church in Manhattan, I denounced ' wet Democrats of New York who shake hands like Herod and Pilate over the crucifixion of the 18th Amendment...
Desvallieres is a religious patriot. His finest recent work is a Crucifixion. During the war he served as major with the picked Chasseurs Alpins, though he was 50 years old. He thinks "some great crisis" which evokes religious feeling in its broadest sense will be necessary to call forth in stone or paint the "spirit of your people...
...this. Nowhere else but in our Museum, not even in Germany, is there to be found such an impressive representation of early German architectural sculpture. Romanesque sculpture and architecture are fully brought to view by the Hildesheim monuments, the Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen and the twelve statues of Founders of Naumburg cathedral; and here again...
...know what we like." The directorate, by judicious use of the funds at their command, and with the assistance of generous friends, have built up a collection of masterpieces of painting that is widely representative and in value compares with any other collection of its size. The new Masaccio Crucifixion; last year's edition of the Gozzoli fresco; and this year's notable Fra Angelico, are but examples of the gems which the museum houses. And for those whose taste fails to appreciate madonnas and crucifixions, there are more robust pictures by later masters, Dutch, Spanish and English. The collection...
...important recent addition to the Italian primitives in the Fogg Art Museum is a painting by Fra Angelico, representing the Crucifixion...