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...first time in seven years this summer. Like many other frescoes, Fra Angelico's Crucifixion, in the chapter house of the cloisters of San Marco (see color page), was suffering from a chronic problem that predated the flood: a pockmarked rash, resulting from crystallization within the plaster...
...Adler and Sullivan in the 1880s, it had become a U.S.O. club with bowling alleys and finally ended as a neglected shell. Its roof leaked; its 4,000 velvet-covered seats were rotting. Weese meticulously restored the stately interior with its soaring arches, curving balconies and richly ornamental plaster friezes. The work cost $2,000,000 and was finished in 1967. The result: a glowing, golden concert and opera hall with near perfect acoustics...
...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...
...display, it also adds a new element to any general understanding of the French master. Discovered by Phyllis Hattis, a graduate student in Fine Arts, the drawings were apparently done when the artist was 12 and 13, and have never been displayed before. They are mostly studies of plaster casts of Greek statues and represent the beginning of Ingres's "sculptural" style...
...every individual cement block in the cell. Fighting to keep from fading entirely to within his own head, his lunge at reality turns to memorizing each idiosyncrasy on the surface of the four walls. He begins, then, to attach string to certain points on the concrete, connecting juttings of plaster, establishing relationships, labeling them. Finally he becomes so frenzied that the room fills with string, crisscrossing all over, so dense that it obstructs his vision. He has intellectualized himself into the corner of a jungle, and he just barely escapes. An interior monologue like this, constructing a purely self-contained...