Word: deoclecio
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...Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, the Vatican's director-general of pontifical monuments, decided to clean the Transfiguration. The results, newly unveiled in Rome, are spectacular: the familiar dirty greens of the sky have given way to a deep, dazzling blue; the dead areas of tone sparkle with lost nuances of color; and the modeling of flesh has acquired a high, suave fullness that had been submerged in the murk. What stood revealed, said Redig de Campos, was "a Raphael who, in his last work, had dared to show himself comparable to the greatest colorists of the time, that...
...prostrate St. Paul but by his horse, which Magi described as having "an expressionless and towering head similar to that of a mule." And curiously, the horse was bridled, though Michelangelo made a habit of painting horses without bridles. Last summer Magi persuaded a Vatican colleague, Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, that the strange beast might be the result of overpainting by some unknown bungler. De Campos took an infra-red photograph, which showed that there was indeed an other head beneath the first...
...repairing a building connected to the loggia probed a wall which Pope Paul III had put up across one end of the gallery in 1534 to strengthen its terminal arch. As the brick came away, they got a glimpse of bright design and glowing colors. For six months Dr. Deoclecio Redig de Campos, an assistant director of the Vatican's museums, bossed the delicate job of stripping away the rest of the wall, and last week he announced his discovery. Behind the bricks were two long, thin (12 ft. by 11 in.) sections of Raphael's original frescoes...
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