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...Dutch abstractionist Piet Mondrian moved to New York City in 1940 and died there four years later. He was the greatest of all the European artists who, displaced by war, settled in America and began the ferment that culminated in what Art Historian Irving Sandler, in an infelicitously imperial phrase, recently called "the triumph of American painting." Yet the results of Mondrian's sojourn have to some extent been set on a back burner...
China Machado, the stylist, dollies in to arrange the folds of a scarf with the care of Michelangelo planning the folds on the Pietá. Sitting immobile for hours at a time has its problems: "My muscles begin to shake after a while. Sometimes the tears start to flow from pain, and we have to airbrush them out of the picture." Such discomfort, of course, cannot be allowed into the photographs...
Almost a year has passed since a deranged Hungarian-born Australian named Lászlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pietà in its chapel at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. With 15 hammer blows Toth knocked off the Madonna's left forearm, dented her veil, smashed her nose and chipped her left cheek (left...
...restoration of the 6,700-lb. statue was carried out by ten Vatican technicians, who were considerably aided in their task by the existence of a plaster cast of the Pietà that had been made 30 years ago. Using a sort of plastic surgery, they restored the shattered nose with a mixture of marble dust and special resins that duplicate the luster of the original stone...
...protrudes from the righthand side of the picture. The distinctness of these evenly-spaced bars of dark and light anticipates the immaculate surface of hard-edge pointing in the 50s and 60s. His later "Basque Façade" (France 1951) shows an obxious knowledge of the work of artist Piet Mondrian who was painting clear-cut balanced grids scattered with blocks of solid...