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...bulk that there seemed no way past him; at the same time, the Counter Reformation demanded an elevated, moralized tone from its artists. The result had nothing to offer Caravaggio-who was not, in any case, a particularly educated man and was impatient with the intellectual offerings of the Papal court. He was, as one might expect from his life, a man to whom sensation was the main issue. "There is no question," wrote one of his 17th century admirers, "that Caravaggio advanced the art of painting because he came upon the scene at a time when realism...
...attack on Pope Paul's diplomatic Ostpolitik. The Ukrainians want an independent patriarchate, but the Vatican has refused because modern patriarchates are national churches. This would give encouragement to Ukrainian separatism, upsetting Vatican diplomacy toward Communism and the Russian Orthodox Church. In desperation, Slipyi and 14 bishops defied papal orders and held a well-planned rump "synod" of their own, with moral support from 150 Ukrainian laymen who flew in from North America by chartered plane...
...face and folded hands are the focus of splintering shafts of light. German Painter Ernst Guenter Hansing, 42, sketched his subject during twelve protracted stays at the Vatican over a period of 21 years. Though he never had a private sitting, he was given a front-row seat at papal ceremonies in which to work. "I wanted more than just a picture of a person," says Hansing, a Lutheran. "I wanted to show the tension-fraught situation of the church, caught in a multiplicity of issues, as reflected in the countenance of the Pope...
...church's headquarters, Gollin's two chapters on Vatican finances depict a much shrewder investment operation than that in the American branch office. In 1929 Mussolini paid the Vatican, which was then virtually broke, $92 million in return for Italy's previous takeover of the Papal States. By 1968, Vatican-employed businessmen, chiefly Bernardino Nogara, a Jewish banker, had parlayed this into a $300 million stake in the Italian economy-plus another $200 million worth of investments in other nations...
...Californie), is now worth anything from $50 million to $100 million. The value of his whole estate has been estimated at around $750 million. His income is immense. Between Jan. 5, 1969 and Feb. 2, 1970, he produced 167 oils and 45 drawings, which were shown in the Papal Palace at Avignon the following summer. Since (according...