Word: frescoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Such a catastrophe is too horrible to contemplate. Anyone who does contemplate it obviously advocates it. Committee for a Sane Navigational Policy, Stephan A. Khiney '62, Robert Fresco '63, Richard W. Bulliet '62, Donald M. Scott...
...knows what great nobleman built the apse. It must have been part of a castle, church or chapel that loomed over a once thriving town. Most of the tiny sculptures that decorate it are still intact, but the fresco that presumably brightened the interior was long since washed away. The Cloisters was not dismayed: it already owned a magnificent fresco of a seated Madonna painted by the 12th century Master of Pedret. The fresco was a bit small, but once set in the new apse, it seemed perfectly at home. After 26 years The Cloisters had its golden treasure...
...Virgin Mary herself is no cool, pale fresco by Fra Angelico-blue rings encircle her eyes in her "dark, wheat-colored skin," and she is miserable about her son Jesus' brooding and preaching: "God sent me but one boy, and he a blemished one." She wants him to be a man "like everyone else . . . Let him marry a nice young girl from a respectable home-with a dowry; let him be a liberal provider, have children, and then we'll all go out together every Saturday to the promenade-grandma, children and grandchildren-so that everyone can admire...