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...committee rooms of Congress, he painted frescoes of Washington at Valley Forge and The Battle of Lexington, and he adorned the corridors with landscapes, studies of wildlife and signs of the zodiac. His crowning achievement was the Capitol dome: 4,664 sq. ft. of concave fresco, with figures 15 ft. high, purposely distorted so that they would appear natural to spectators below. It took him eleven months to finish, lying on his back on a scaffold, 180 ft. above the floor...
...luscious fresco depicting The Triumph of Venus looked down upon a group of delegates from the world's most prosperous nations as they gathered last week at Le Bocage, a lakeside villa in Geneva. The serious beginning of the Kennedy Round, after weeks and months of trial and trouble, was not exactly a triumph of love, but it was certainly a tribute to perseverance...
That a modern artist should decorate such a 19th century shrine revolted many traditionalists. To them, the cherubs and rosy clouds of Jules-Eugène Lenepveu's academic fresco were perfectly at home in the Second Empire opera house. But one Frenchman disagreed-and he happened to be Minister of Culture André Malraux...
...last chemists have come to the artists' rescue. Synthetic paints, developed over the past 15 years, have proved so satisfactory that oils in time may seem as archaic as buono fresco. One in three U.S. artists has already switched to the new medium.* The converts range from Romantic Realist Thomas Hart Benton to Pop's Andy Warhol, from Collagist Alfonso Ossorio to Boris Artzybasheff, who used synthetic paint on the portrait of Lady Bird Johnson that appeared on TIME's cover...
Next day the Pope gathered before him in the Sistine Chapel the representatives sent to the council by 86 governments. Also attending was the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, G. Frederick Reinhardt. Earnestly John pointed to Michelangelo's great fresco of The Last Judgment. "The seriousness of it gives one much food for thought," he said. "We must indeed render an account to God, we and all the heads of state who bear responsibility for the fate of nations...