Word: scaffolder
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...Michelangelo to work on a heroic bronze statue of himself and later to painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This time he gave the painter no peace, coming day after day with questions and suggestions. Once the terrible-tempered Florentine threatened to throw the Pope down off the scaffold; once the Pope actually beat the painter with his cane...
...crippled man in a wheelchair was pushed along a corridor into the death chamber of Montreal's Bordeaux Jail one midnight last week. Guards lifted the cripple out of his chair and carried him up the steps of the steel scaffold. The hangman fitted the noose, waited for a nod from the sheriff, then sprang the trap. Twelve minutes later, a small notice was tacked on the prison door. "Judgment by death," it read, "was this day executed on Généreux Ruest...
...morning in 1498, a Dominican monk named Girolamo Savonarola said a last "Mass in the chapel of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Then he and two fellow Dominicans were dragged outside to a cross-shaped scaffold. As thousands of Florentines jeered, they were stripped of their white habits. The last of the three, Savonarola silently received the hangman's noose. As he died, a pyre was lit at the bottom of his scaffold...
Last week, Florentines flocked to the scene of Savonarola's execution to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth. A children's choir sang. Nuns convoyed little girls in white dresses who sprinkled flowers where the scaffold once stood. At night, drummers in medieval costume led processions of torch-bearing students past the flower-decked plaque. Orated Mayor Giorgio la Pira, a Christian Democrat: "Fra Girolamo Savonarola characterized Florence . . . as a firm guardian of the spirit of political liberty and as an eternal expression of fraternity and loving-kindness between...
...photographs reproduced here are the result of the first systematic color study ever made of two of Chartres' greatest (west portal) windows. They were taken by James R. Johnson, a Columbia University art instructor, who used a 70-ft. scaffold to get close-ups of every panel...