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...assembled in the darkroom--to create "historical" pictures, portraying in one vast tableau all the heroes, villains, and valiant deeds of great events. They more or less failed, but for thirty years, the so-called "Photo-secession" or pictorialist school produced soft-focus, dreamy images with such titles as "Madonna with Child" or "Blessed Art Thou Among Women...
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Such figures as the majestic green-feathered angel and the rigid Madonna on the lunette fresco from Sant'Angelo in Formis (see color overleaf) are flesh-made-geometry. Even when a mosaicist tried to be more "naturalistic," as the Venetian artist who executed a Head of an Apostle in Rome around 1218 seems to have done, the medium itself-thousands of glass cubes like colored teeth-automatically formalized the work...
Evita, worshiped by the masses as the "little Madonna," bolstered Perón's popularity. She was head of the Eva Perón Foundation, a lightly audited charity that she used to pass $100 million annually to the poor. After she died of cancer in 1952 at age 33, Argentines petitioned the Vatican to canonize her. Although Rome refused, a secular cult has formed to revere her memory; it is still going strong...
...first few years of his regime, Perón rode high. He continued to cultivate the workers, granting them more pay raises and awarding them unprecedented social security and vacation benefits. At the same time, Evita became the wife-mother of the poor, "the little Madonna" who spread millions of dollars in largesse among them from a loosely audited cache of government funds and forced "donations." The Evita cult grew alongside that of Perón himself. When Evita died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1952, there was an unsuccessful campaign to get the Vatican to proclaim...