Word: deoclecio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
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