Word: michelangelo
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VATICAN. Some 70.000 people daily have been filing past the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture lent by St. Peter...
...work of art is often a synopsis of its time. Versailles tells of 17th century French rationalism in its orderly facades and the geometry of its gardens. Michelangelo's sculpture reveals in its robust anatomy the renaissance of man's faith in himself. Yet few objects compact so much of a world into a microcosm as the Romanesque cross recently acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...drink Israeli orange soda, savor an Egyptian beancake sandwich, try a taco from Colombia, drink Greek wine, and sober up at an Indian tea bar. You can inspect benni seeds from Sierra Leone, pitchforks from Taiwan, and yourself on RCA color TV. You can see the Pietà of Michelangelo in the Vatican pavilion...
...Great Criminal. When he turned his back on business and family to become a fulltime painter, he announced the decision with a typically self-conscious flourish: "Oh, yes, I am a great criminal. What does it matter! Michelangelo was too!" He exchanged his stockbroker's black business suits for a fisherman's blue jersey and high boots, retreated to cultivate a new role-"the austere heretic," in Pissarro's words, who "pontificated and was followed by a train of young...
...there," pointed one proud Pinkerton. "She's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen." "She" is not Sally Rand; she is Michelangelo's Pietà, a star attraction at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Despite doomsayers, Michelangelo's Pietà survived its ocean trip, emerged intact from its elaborate packing cases, and settled proudly atop a pedestal in the Vatican Pavilion...