Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After receiving as a gift from one Mrs. May Lyons a Mosaic of himself, made in the Vatican Museum, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan last week wrote letters to the pastors of his archdiocese, instructing them to dedicate October "to the supreme shepherd, Pius XI, in honor of the 50th anniversary of his holy priesthood," and to collect Peter-pence October...
...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...
...raised on the Nebraska prairie a building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored masses are simple-a great flat base; a slim domed tower which rises more than 400 ft. In style it is mysterious-something of vanished Assyrian strongholds; something of Byzantine vaults, domes and mosaic ornament; something of simple Mayan massiveness. Perhaps the style is best called Nebraskan. The history
...sometime required three general examinations, one in the field as a whole, one in the department specialized in, and one in a very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition of isolated detail...
...found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio." Believing that modern art naturally tends to enhance utilitarian objects, Painter Poor became Potter Poor. He has now thoroughly infused his art with mundane strength. From shaping delicate urns and saucers, he turns cheerfully to designing a series of mosaic tiles for the Byzantine ceiling of the Union Dime Savings Bank in Manhattan, or a bathroom of mellow tiles for modern ablutions...