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...fact that the Cezanne, next to Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Bend (which cost about $5,000,000) is the costliest new picture in Washington does not mean it can be "put up against" Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Raphael's Alba Madonna, or even the museum's other and better Cezannes. Its interest is mainly historical. Cezannes of this date are rare. Even the ineptitudes of this gawkily powerful portrait-such as the clumsy handling of the trousers and the armchair-have a certain interest in the context of Cezanne...
...Loreto after a miraculous flight from Nazareth. That association with air travel has been enough to make the town of 9,500 a profitable center of jet-age piety. Last week at least 50,000 pilgrims crammed in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a papal proclamation designating the Madonna of Loreto as protector of aviators; they overflowed the 20 hotels and dozen boarding houses that have gone up in Loreto in recent years. Prosperity from tourism has helped Loreto entrepreneurs to finance several small factories producing souvenirs and religious objects on the periphery of the town...
...Bradford, Pa., who had made a modest fortune out of the family brick business and natural gas, caught her act. He was smitten. Three years later they were married. He was then in his 50s and Tullah only 24 or so, but she did not mind. "I was his Madonna. I wanted a spiritual man because, since 13, I was pursued by physically minded men." Tullah learned to love art, but did not abandon her passion for dancing-with the least encouragement, she will perform her interpretive act for friends whenever and wherever space is available. "My passions...
...most black churchmen, as to Samuel Williams, the future is an open and agonizing question. Some, like Joseph Jackson, find their answers by retreating to solutions of the past. Others try different paths. Pastor Albert B. Cleage Jr. of Detroit's Shrine of the Black Madonna, who preaches that Jesus was literally black, has announced that he is founding a "Black Christian Nationalist Movement" that will have its first "national convention" in Detroit this week. Cleage, who ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the National Council of Churches last December, also expects to attract black Jews,* sunni Muslims...
...first task in the reconstruction was restoring the Baroque 18th century Zwinger (literally, the Keep). In 1946, 150 master stonemasons went to work; it took them 16 years to complete the job. Alongside the Zwinger, Semper's famous Gemaldegalerie (Art Gallery) once again exhibits Raphael's Sistine Madonna, twelve Rembrandts (including his Portrait of Saskia), 1 6 Rubenses, five Titians and two Vermeers. Gaetano Chiaveri's Baroque 18th century Hofkirche (Court Church) is finished and used regularly for Catholic services. The old Landhaus (Statehouse), an imposing mansion reminiscent of Versailles, has been turned into a museum...