Word: crucifixion
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...Moscow correspondent. Molotov spun through 40 rooms of art in an hour, suggesting by changes in his usually granite features that he was taken by Rubens and Tintoretto, curious about an obscure painting of J. P. Morgan-by Carlos Baca-Flor, disdainful of Salvador Dali's recent The Crucifixion. After seeing the best of the Met's European works, Molotov asked to see some American paintings...
...dramatically lighted Crucifixion by Francisco de Zurbaran, Spain's i;th century master, made its reappearance at Chicago's Art Institute, an event the institute hailed as "one of the most remarkable 'recoveries' in art history." The Crucifixion, originally painted for Seville's white-robed Dominicans, dates from 1627, the period of Zurbaran's arrival as a mature artist. Seized by Napoleon's troops around 1807, it turned up in 1880 in the hands of Spain's Duke of Alba, who donated it to a Jesuit seminary in Canterbury, England...
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel-TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin...
...lifted out of relation to God's Fatherhood, which is seldom mentioned . . . and mere brotherhood is offered in the name of Christianity as a nostrum to keep America strong. In the name of God, this kind of thing represents a prostitution of the Christian faith and a crucifixion anew of the Christ who put human brotherhood in the most terrible and demanding of all relationships, that of common sonship under God. Let us have brotherhood, but not by all means...
...interview which I gave to TIME concerning my Crucifixion has not been objectively expressed. This fact, together with the completely biased version of the facts, gives to the article "Dali Makes Met" [Jan. 24] a completely erroneous interpretation...The interest in my pictorial work has continuously increased since I commenced my religious subjects. My first important religious painting, The Madonna of Port-Lligat, which was exhibited in 1947, was very highly praised. A subsequent one, The Christ of St. John of the Cross, was acquired by the Glasgow Art Gallery and has created a tremendous interest...I consider...