Word: pietas
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...Thank you for the priceless portrait of the Pieta at the World's Fair. This marvelous work, and all other great works of art, belong to mankind. Now thousands of Americans who otherwise could not have known this deep experience can view it. It is fitting that it should be on display for all who pass by at the fair...
...fair is more than a legacy of P.T. Barum's vulgarity and showmanship. There remain exhibits that combine both beauty and taste--the Pieta, of course; the gigantic scale model of New York City; and the Federal Pavilion that stresses some of the glittering aspects of American development such as immigration, urban blight, and the integration struggle. The United States also plans to offer productions of Shakespeare, ballets and concerts in its courtyard, as well as symposiums given by Noble prize-winners inside. In addition, the city's Museum of Science, if ever completed, promises an intriguing, permanent exhibition...
...usually self-sufficient Robert Moses, Francis Cardinal Spellman raised in a private audience with Pope John XXIII the matter of the Vatican Pavilion exhibit at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Result: the pavilion's attractions will include Michelangelo's only signed work, the moving Pieta, which has long graced the first chapel of St. Peter's Basilica and has never before in its 463-year history been out of the Vatican...
...first items in the quiz was a Crivelli Pieta, and the trick was to tell what part was original and what part had been restored. Except for certain slick parts, most of the crackled surface seemed beyond reproach. It might even have fooled the Fogg, had the man who donated the painting not also given two photographs of it. one taken in 1907 and the other in 1909. The earlier photograph showed that before restoration about half of Christ's body had peeled...
...shortened. The Christ carries the experiment to the ultimate, and the effect is something of a shock. The greenish corpse fills almost the entire canvas, the marks of suffering still plain to see. The ungainly intimacy of the portrayal has an impact of its own: few portrayals of the Pieta evoke such a powerful sense of grief and of pity for the tortured Christ-or of outrage for his murderers...