Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 14th century and later converted into a mosque. With official blessing, the restorers went to work, soon realized that they had found a new jewel case of Byzantine art. With the job only three-fourths completed, their most significant find has been a set of 18 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Virgin Mary. Says Professor Paul A. Underwood, field director of the Istanbul project, who this week reports on the restoration work to the World Byzantine Congress in Istanbul: "Kariye Camii is the best sample we have of late Byzantine...
Kariye Camii was rebuilt in the early 1300s as a monastery church within Constantinople's mighty walls, at the order of a wealthy courtier, Theodore Metochites. All evidence indicates that the church was decorated by mosaic masters who were buoyed up by the same fresh new breeze of discovery that in the West heralded the first stirrings of the Renaissance. Into the rigid Byzantine forms that had governed Eastern religious art for almost a thousand years, Byzantine artists poured a new warmth drawn from revived classic models...
...wench." After all, "perfectly honorable people are nudists, and . . . nudism [is] not a crime." Pegler's charge that Reynolds proposed marriage to Heywood Broun's widow in the car on the way to Broun's grave was not libelous either, said the lawyers, since even the Mosaic Code imposes "upon a brother the duty of proposing to his dead brother's widow." As for Pegler's charge that Reynolds had "a yellow streak glaring for the world to see," that kind of writing is just "gloating in jesting terms" and does no one any harm...
...belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians, but the vast majority of Moslems still take very seriously the Mosaic rule against graven images; they are especially incensed by statues of religious leaders, and, among these, a statue of Mohammed would be especially offensive...
...that of Clarence Randall, foreign economic adviser to the President, who has tried harder than any other businessman to steer the U.S. toward freer trade. In his new book, A Foreign Economic Policy for the U.S. (University of Chicago; $1.95), Randall says that the U.S. must move from a "mosaic of improvisation'' to a policy that will produce "a nation that is secure...