Word: lindenwood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pain into Wood. In the days of its prosperity, Zoutleeuw could afford the best artists available, and drew them from centers like Louvain, Antwerp and Brussels. The earliest major piece in the church, a 12th century Crucifixion carved in lindenwood, has all the pathos of a spiritualized image discovering the resistances of the body: the long oval face, the crudely gouged hair, the hacked spear wound and the thin, knob-bled torso almost physically displace the pain of nailed flesh into the pain of wood attacked by a chisel...
...strict as metal, building up a system of pyramids that finishes in the smooth, serene, Gothic arch of St. Anne's wimple. By the 16th century the church was commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There is still a trace of Gothic rigor in the sweeping cloak of its lindenwood Mary Magdalene, but in all other respects she is almost a portrait, down to the look of pleased anticipation on her broad face as she uncaps the flask to anoint Christ's feet...
Mayor John Lindsay's associates proclaimed that the project would proceed, but there were signs of queasiness at City Hall; last week the Board of Estimate turned down a similar proposal for Lindenwood, another section of Queens. Also last week, despite a personal appeal from New York's Republican-Conservative Senator James Buckley, Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney gave...