Word: restorationism
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While The Bathers underwent routine restoration, British critics debated the extravagance. To buy the work, a real estate developer, Max Rayne, had put up $700,000, and the tax-supported National Gallery and the Crown had kicked in the rest. British Art Critic Douglas Cooper carped that it was "an...
The Pope did not forget the 65 million Catholics who live under Communism. Among those elevated to the purple were two prelates no longer in command of their sees: Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, who came to Rome in 1963 after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, and Czech Primate Josef Beran...
But the Panchen's popularity was doomed to fade. Last month the Communists' military commander in Tibet began lashing out at unnamed "schemers" who were "plotting the restoration of integration of politics and religion." Sure enough, he was talking about the Panchen Lama, on whom so many Communist...
Hope Against Hope. Finally, the storms subsided somewhat. In many places, people returned to their homes to begin the heartbreaking business of restoration. In many others, there was simply nothing to restore. All told, the storms left more than 7,000 people homeless. The number of dead stood at at...
For many centuries, royal patronage was an index to British culture. Eliza beth I learned that "the Italians had the name to be the cunningest," but what Italian paintings the crown acquired were largely sold off by Cromwell though the Restoration Stuarts searched to recover them.