Word: hippolytus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books about Kennedy, I doubt if anyone has expressed a nation's feelings as well as Euripides in Hippolytus. "On all our citizens hath come this universal sorrow, unforeseen. Now shall the copious tear gush forth, for sad news about great men takes more than usual hold upon the heart...
...York Conference of the Methodist Church in Bridgeport last month, Tenor Saxophonist Ed Summerlin, with sextet and chorus, presented the first performance of a new Liturgy of the Holy Spirit, with words by Poet William Robert Miller. Based vaguely on a Christian service described by the 2nd century theologian Hippolytus, the eclectic 14-part liturgy included jazz anthems in fairly conventional "cool" style, ballad-like congregational hymns reminiscent of Kurt Weill, choral passages as modal as a 14th century Mass. Florida-born Ed Summerlin began writing jazz for use in churches six years ago, when he poured out his grief...
Overshadowed by the High Renaissance, the 15th century artists of the Lowlands were called "Flemish primitives." But the modern eye has adjusted to their light, and appreciates the full sophistication of their art. This quality is clearly visible in The Martyrdom of St. Hippolytus, a long-hidden work by an unknown Flemish master which went on view last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (see opposite page). Preserved for many years in the seldom-used Paris house of a French banker, the yard-high triptych first reappeared in public at a 1962 auction. A Manhattan art syndicate...
...Hippolytus, by legend a Roman legionary converted to Christianity, was sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses during the 3rd century. But the Flemish artist painted his martyrdom as a contemporary event and in the dress of the day the grisly event took on a more direct meaning. Only one other known altarpiece is devoted to the same subject-the one by Dieric Bouts and Hugo van der Goes that hangs in the Museum of the Church of the Holy Saviour in Bruges...
Before its channel to the sea silted up, Bruges was a thriving port, grown wealthy under its Burgundian duke, Philip the Good, from banking and the wool trade with England. The prince's financial adviser, Hippolytus de Berthoz, presumably commissioned both triptychs to honor his saint's name. The heraldry painted on the outer faces of the triptych suggests that it was done some time between 1480 and 1494, almost certainly by a master painter in the Guild of St. Luke, a medieval union that included saddlers and glassworkers...