Word: heavenwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shepherds, painted to decorate his own tomb in the church of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. In it, the Christ Child becomes a glowing pearl, illuminating with otherworldly radiance the three adoring shepherds and St. Joseph in his blue tunic and yellow cloak. Presiding over the scene that soars heavenward like a mighty Gloria in Excelsis is the figure of Mary. The oval face, pointed chin and downcast eyes are the features of Dona Jeronima de las Cuevas, the woman El Greco may never have married but who bore him his only...
...their discoveries into the greatest surviving art tradition of Western Europe. At one level their conversion of Renaissance ideals into an academic package of rules and theories merely opened the door wide to the host of imitators that to this day grinds out tearful madonnas or resurrected Christs borne heavenward by muscular angels and simpering cherubim. But their virtuoso talents, turning back from the feverish mental imagery of the mannerists, also served as a transmission belt between the Renaissance and the three new paths Western art was to follow in the next two centuries. The ennobling gestures and grand manner...
Located at ... City Hall is Milles' memorial statue in the form of an Indian God of Peace, dedicated to the war veterans of Ramsey County. As a group of Indians crouch about their council fire, smoking their pipe of peace, the smoke rising heavenward takes the form of an Indian God of Peace, one hand holding a peace pipe, the other extended in a gesture of friendliness...
Among wriggling dormitories and three-cornered orange peels on the MIT campus, an awesome cylinder of bricks is being raised heavenward. That this unique type of structure be erected as a place of worship is more than ironically sagacious: it is downright shrewd. For, especially here on the MIT campus, form must follow function, in this case, to inspire divine thoughts in the pragmatic-and-recently sobered heads of MIT scientific supermen. the problem of directing brains from the mechanisms of Ac-DC current, the path of least resistance, to thoughts of the spirit, the divine essence and meaning...
...this cylindrical temple, another esoteric form presides, resembling a rocket-ship, headed heavenward. This vessel for outer space might be very effectively employed in not wafting gently, but forcefully propelling recalcitrant MIT students into the Empyrean...