Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banked shrines on religious holidays. "It's good for the heart as well as the soul," said a young peasant woman near Lowicz last week, winding a chain of paper roses around a huge roadside cross. A fortnight ago, at the annual renewal of national vows to the Madonna of Czestochowa, 500,000 Poles turned out at the shrine where King John Casimir dedicated his throne and country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most...
Gerald Johnson once wrote that "a man who has tried to play Mozart and failed, through that vain effort comes into a better position to understand the man who tried to paint the Sistine Madonna, and did." This is obviously an article of faith. You can never prove that it is true, because you can never measure such understanding. The Fine Arts Department does not hold to this faith; the Music department does not hold to this faith; the language departments are beginning to suspect that there just might be something in it, and believing this, they are beginning...
...furniture. He loved the players, and yet often regarded them as his enemies. "I want to kill them," he would cry passionately after a bad rehearsal. "They are beasts." But he blamed himself just as bitterly, and he could be generous in his praise of a good performance: "Santa Madonna! Now I am happy, you are happy, Beethoven is happy...
Three weeks after he arrived, Hungary hit the world's headlines, but there were no headlines in Castelpoto. Don Domenico went to a nearby town, rented four loudspeakers and a public-address system for $15 a month. He set up the speakers in the Church of the Madonna's crumbling brick campanile and turned up the power loud enough to be heard five miles away. Then he set to work with high-decibel hymns, prayers and sermons...
...Among them: Raphael's Madonna of the Chair, Fra Angelico's Marriage of the Virgin, sculptures by Donatello, Cellini and Michelangelo, all from Florence's museums...