Word: pietas
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Jesus (Stanley Ferryman) is mute throughout the musical, but as he is brought down from the Cross in a sculptured pieta, his body speaks the moving language of anguish. Dual aspects of Mary's character are depicted by Salome Bey and Mabel Robinson. An electrifying showstopper is provided by Delores Hall, who seems to be AWOL from the heavenly choir as she sings I Love You So Much Jesus. That is really what this luminous show is all about...
...incomparable work has been happily restored," Pope Paul VI declared proudly last week as he unveiled the Pieta to the public once more (center). A 15-ft. wall of nonglare, bulletproof glass now shields the Madonna from her admirers. But behind the glass, insists one Vatican official, is a masterpiece that is "still the work of Michelangelo, not of the restorers...
...Artisans of Florence and Rome, I beg you, do not restore the Pieta...
Since Michelangelo intended his work to invoke pity in the mind of the beholder, let his damaged Pieta convey in its brokenness an added dimension of pity...
...cultural heritage of Italy (or that part of it embodied in architecture, painting and sculpture, urban planning and landscape design) has been deteriorating-rotting or stolen or bulldozed, concreted over in the name of progress, or just strangled in red tape. Last week's attack on the Pieta may direct the world's attention to the urgency of this problem. It is not a matter of one Michelangelo the less but the gradual death of the most complex and exquisite cultural ecology that Europe or the world has ever seen...