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...Milo, weighing more than a ton, arrived in Japan to grace the summer Olympics, having lost four chips of plaster and marble added during a 19th century restoration (they were glued back on). To enhance the New York World's Fair, Michelangelo's 6,700-lb. Pietà was eased off its pedestal in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, slid down planks lubricated with laundry soap and packed in a double box with a foam plastic that cushions the marble and supports it by filling every cranny. For the sea voyage, the Vatican took...
Moving great works of art always stirs fears-vivid thoughts of a plane's crashing and burning with a considerable part of the work of Van Gogh, or the Pietà gently cracking in two along some unknown flaw line (although technicians, having bombarded the sculpture with X rays and cobalt 60 gamma rays, have discovered it to be the perfect piece of marble that Michelangelo said it was). Beyond fears for the safety of the art, its sponsors are given to worry over whether the likes of World...
Fair or Olympic crowds can appreciate great works of art. The Venus de Milo is being shown in a flashy arena with a moving platform to carry viewers by without strain; the Pietà will be dramatically lighted in a staging designed by Jo Mielziner...
FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART-62 East 78th. Fifty Venetian paintings from the 17th century range from Palma II Giovane, who worked in Titian's studio and is thought to have finished Titian's last Pietà, to Sebastiano Ricci, the uncle and teacher of Marco Ricci, who set the style for 18th century Venetian landscape painting. Through April...
...field, South African Forward Dick Putter was cut in the mouth by one missile, and as a bottle spun toward Referee Piet Myburgh, a husky Australian saved him with a flying tackle. After play resumed, South Africa won, 22 to 6. The score among the spectators: six whites and 20 nonwhites hospitalized, two nonwhites arrested, 40 cars in the parking lot damaged from rocks rained onto them from the black stands...