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...drawings were selected to display Michelangelo's progress from young prodigy to grand old master. He was only 24 when he completed the Pietà now in St. Peter's, only 26 when he began his famed David for Florence. The sketches done at this time demonstrate his incredible instinct for monumentality, acquired, as he said, with the milk of his wet nurse, the wife of a Tuscan stonecutter...
...Hulsbosch, an Augustinian, issued a manifesto against the Council of Chalcedon. The church, he wrote, should "no longer speak of a union of the divine and human nature in one pre-existent person." One of the Dutch movement's two leading figures has been his Nijmegen colleague, Jesuit Piet Schoonenberg. In his 1969 book, published in English as The Christ (Herder & Herder; 1971), Schoonenberg also discarded the "two natures" approach, speaking instead of "God's complete presence in the human person Jesus Christ." Canadian Theologian Bernard J.F. Lonergan later said that Schoo-nenberg's book could lead...
DIED. Thomas J. Deegan Jr., 67, organizer of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As chairman of the World's Fair Corporation, Deegan was instrumental in bringing the Pietà to New York City, the first time Michelangelo's sculpture had been removed from Rome in more than 400 years...
...least competent. The history they describe is more settled and hence readily encapsulated. The "period rooms"-unconvincing reconstructions of the Gertrude Stein salon at 27, Rue de Fleurus, the "291" gallery in which Alfred Stieglitz introduced Matisse, Brancusi and modern photography to a tiny coterie in New York, and Piet Mondrian's Manhattan studio, among other places-are tackily made and none too accurate. But the paintings fare better...
...material here is certainly newer to French than to American eyes -most of it comes from U.S. collections -but there is one sublime group of paintings that have never been seen together in public before: Piet Mondrian's series of canvases centered around Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-43), done in exile in Manhattan. They make up one of the most exalted statements about ideal form in the history of art. One gains, at 30 years' distance, a full sense of why Mondrian's fanatical purity and countervailing richness of surface so obsessed his American followers...