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VATICAN. The Pieta, bathed in blue light, is a major attraction, though somewhat diminished by the cold setting and a crowd-hustling moving sidewalk. Cognoscenti who have already seen Michelangelo's masterpiece glowing like old ivory in the natural light of St. Peter's might be wise to remember it that...
VATICAN. The important thing here, of course, is the Pieta, Michelangelo's marble masterpiece of tenderness and compassion, poorly displayed. But not to be overlooked is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture in the chapel upstairs...
VATICAN. Some 78,000 people daily have been viewing the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture, also from the Vatican's vast collection...
VATICAN. Some 70.000 people daily have been filing past the Pieta. That its monumental tenderness manages to penetrate the frigid atmosphere is a tribute to Michelangelo's genius. In the chapel upstairs is The Good Shepherd, a magnificent early Roman sculpture lent by St. Peter...
Louis and Spokane, emerged from the shadows for only a few public functions: one of them was representing Pope Paul at the dedication of Notre Dame's new $8,000,000 library. Another Curia officer, Paolo Cardinal Marella, 69, presided over the unveiling of the Pieta at the New York World's Fair, and brought Francis Cardinal Spellman a sentimental gift from Pope Paul: a topaz brooch once worn by Pius XII on state occasions. Marella returned home with four honorary doctorates, including one from Catholic University, which last year barred four progressive theologians from giving lectures there...