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...project is particularly unique, Pocobene says, due to “the stature of Sargent himself as an artist”—and because “it’s so different from what we usually deal with...
...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...
When he painted the murals, Sargent had total decorative control over what is now the library’s Sargent Hall...
...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...
...caught Sargent completely by surprise,” says Mary Crawford Volk, a scholar at the Museum Studies Program of Harvard Extension School who is currently writing a book on Sargent...