Word: sargentã
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It’s a “pretty extraordinary thing” to restore Sargent??s murals, says Gianfranco Pocobene, a paintings conservator involved in the restoration...
...Sargent??s murals stand out—not only from the frescos of da Vinci and Michaelangelo, but also from more modern works. Unlike his predecessors in the mural tradition, Sargent used a wide range of available media, including gilded statuary and a plethora of other relief materials. Consequently, the Straus Center has had to allocate four or five conservators with differing specialties to the project...
...general, Sargent??s contemporaries viewed his interpretation of worship as progressive, though one aspect remains controversial today...
...what has piqued some library-goers since 1919, irrespective of their faith, was Sargent??s symbolism of the synagogue as a blind old woman—a reference to the medieval convention signifying the failure of Judaism to see the truth of Christianity. By contrast, Sargent portrayed the church as wide-eyed and demurely poised atop a throne-like seat...
...Sargent??s synagogue is “best understood as forming part of the entire ensemble,” according to Volk. Many scholars have noted that Sargent intended the paired figures to be seen as only the outer trappings of a truer inner spirituality–and so that both church and synagogue were outmoded...