Word: madonna
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...changes, from blue to grey to green, and are unusually large; when she smiles, they brim with tenderness and a kind of luminous spirituality that seems to tame the beast and inspire the best in men. Says a hardbitten, hard-smitten Hollywood producer: "It is the face of a madonna...
...make "any room a private chapel," the devout may keep their rosaries in a Musical Madonna, which "glows softly with comforting concealed light," and upon opening the rosary drawer, "plays Gounod's Ave Maria." Another item for the room: a plaque of Jesus' head, "breathtaking in its vibrant lifelike color . . . created so that the eyes and face of Jesus follow you in any direction...
...interested in your July 29 story on Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress and Reader Afton Wynn's later comments on primitive paintings of the Madonna (with an Indian face) on the walls of Mexican churches. Why shouldn't a Christ, a Madonna or angels look like Indians or Negroes, or whatever? Great medieval artists represented members of the Holy Family in clothes of the artist's own period. Christ can appear in all shapes...
...shocked with English Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress [July 29] nearly so much as I was surprised at seeing paintings of the Madonna, with an Indian face, on the walls of Mexican churches. If Mary can have an Indian face in Mexico. I don't see why England can't have her with a wind-blown haircut...
...clothes or new clothes, Arthur Fretwell's Madonna in "Nativity" is still the Madonna. Look at her face...