Word: sacra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...
...murals at the Brazilian Pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid...