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...joined 20 bishops in golden robes in a solemn ceremony beatifying Sister Urszula Ledochowska, a Polish educator who organized Catholic schools before World War I. As the Pope conferred on Sister Urszula the title "blessed," the next-to-last step in the arduous path to sainthood, a life-size portrait of the nun in simple gray habit was unveiled...
Poles caught their first glimpse of the man whose portrait hangs in countless homes across the country as he stepped from the plane at Warsaw's Okecie Airport. Clutching his white skullcap against a sudden breeze, John Paul made his way down to the tarmac and, in his traditional gesture of respect, knelt to kiss the asphalt. While Polish President Henryk Jablonski looked on, the Pope explained with emotion that he had kissed the ground, "as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother." Said John Paul: "I consider...
...Black Madonna of Czestochowa is far more than an object of Roman Catholic reverence. It is a source of historical continuity, a cause and remembrance of national liberation from foreign enemies, and a fount of miracles. The 4-ft. by 2½-ft. gilt-and-tempera dark-hued portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ child is laden with gems and silver. By legend, the painting is attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist, and was executed on a table top from the house of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Nazareth. It origins are unknown, but it may date...
...faded bibbed overalls, she of the dowdy mien and disapproving eye, in front of that white frame house. For the mass audience it was the most famous painting in the world. The runner-up was Leonardo's Last Supper; and after that, what? The Mona Lisa? The Washington portrait by Peale? It hardly matters; the pre-eminence of American Gothic as a popular icon has not been challenged in several generations, since Wood painted it in 1930. Its fame sank Wood's reputation and took the rest of his work with...
...birthplace, when travel was dauntingly arduous and news of other countries was the most expensive commodity in Europe, Holbein was a completely international man: he worked in Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and, especially, England. His work, despite its powerful integrity of style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Grünewald. It seems to range backward and forward in time, a web of discreet allusions that seldom rise to open quotation. Thus in drawing Cecily Heron...