Word: gothic
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...turreted Gothic mansion at Henley-on-Thames used to be a Salesian Sisters' convent. Now the 35-acre estate will ring not to hymns but to a different sound of music. Beatle George Harrison and Wife Pattie have traded in their ranch-style Surrey bungalow and bought the 30-room domain...
...directors of the exhibition assert that the time bridging the traditional periods of Romanesque and Gothic has its own style, distinct from the other two. With an aesthetic between the geometric conception of Romanesque and the lush stylization of Gothic, the artists of the era 1200 depict graceful, expressive bodies that never overstep the refinement of their form...
...sweet wind of humanism swept across the dark face of Europe, bringing with it a new interest in Latin classics and Greek philosophy, a delight in racy troubadour songs and epic verse, and a keener awareness of the dignity of man. The Magna Carta was signed, and the great Gothic cathedrals of Chartres, Notre Dame and Reims were begun...
...these exceptional accomplishments, however, art historians have traditionally looked upon the period as primarily a transition between Romanesque severity and Gothic naturalism. It is that, to be sure. But Thomas Moving, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and a medieval scholar, has long been convinced that Style 1200, as he calls it, is so distinctive that it merits consideration...
...exhibition, noticed the Christ figure in an Oslo museum last summer, remembered the Metropolitan's cross, and realized from their similar scale, design and delicate coloring that the two were probably at one time part of the same work. The Romanesque Christ was inhumanly serene; the later Gothic Christ was often all too humanly agonized. This 1200 Christ has both serenity and humanity, and thus sets the theme for the show...