Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sir: I was 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...
"That the young in those countries, blinkered and intellectually constricted from birth, should nevertheless express these needs is, in my belief, yet another manifestation of the workings of the law of nature or, as it became known in medieval times, the law of God."
ST. PETER'S SQUARE, so vast that it can hold 200,000 people standing before the largest church in Christendom, is a triumph of the second Rome that rose up under the Renaissance Popes from the ruins of classic Rome and the squalid clutter of the medieval city (which...
SIENA'S PIAZZO DEL CAMPO, like Rome's Forum, was originally a marketplace set between Siena's three fortified hills. Still the center of the most perfectly preserved medieval city in Italy, the piazza lacks the dramatic impact of Bernini's baroque creation, but it has...
In the Calabrian village of Presinaci, whose 100-odd mud-floored houses swarm with flies, black pigs and naked children, the Mafia leaders, in his telling, were a loutish collection of bullyboys dedicated to thievery, twisted honor and senseless violence. But the ritual they practiced was ominous with medieval significance...