Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in Poland, times change. Last week 22-year-old Andrew Potocki and his dark-haired bride of three months were caught loading the Potocki art collection (including a Madonna and Child and St. John by Andrea del Sarto) into trucks in the dead of night...
Most of the statues, paintings and tapestries have not been seen in six years; many have never before been exhibited in a museum. Standout in the priceless collection is the famed 11th Century Essen Madonna, a 30-inch, gold-covered wooden statue that spent the war years in a damp tunnel. Now, in the 16th Century castle which Goebbels commandeered as a summer home, the wide-eyed Madonna sits serene in a gilded bathroom...
Catholic art often depicts Christ, Mary and the saints with Mongoloid features. Though priests do not teach that Christ was Chinese, the Sinofication of icons has the Church's official blessing. (Not approved: a painting of the Madonna and Child which alarmed many Chinese because Mary looked too much like the late Manchu Dowager Empress...
...Giovanni, each Madonna and Child, Crucifixion, Pieta, martyred saint, and lay portrait was an essay on nature as well as on man. He organized his pictures with the care of a conscientious gardener, planting every detail where it would have room to grow and impress itself on the eye. Light was all-important in his best works; he fixed its color and quality precisely enough to show the weather and the time of day. But the light said even more: he made it a link between people and landscapes. In paintings like Saint Francis (see cut), the painted light seems...
...first postwar fashion show. Gathered on the broad, springy lawn of Madame's plushy home were leading lights of Shanghai's international set. The wife of a U.S. oil company manager came confidently attired in a new spring suit; an icy Russian brunette sat like a Raphael Madonna in a startling blue turban...