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...stained glass windows, Chartres’ cathedral has been on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites since 1979. Since then, active and consistent restoration efforts have rid most of the cathedral’s windows and stonework of grime buildup from the past centuries. In order to sustain the program, non-profit organizations like the American Friends of Chartres (AFC), based in New York, and its French counterpart, Chartres Sanctuaire du Monde (CSM), were founded to seek direct, mostly fiscal contribution to accelerate the process...
...Utrillo or Vlaminck - delicate streetscapes suffused with morning light and dusky melancholy. Indeed, those artists, along with Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Derain, were among Atget's contemporary admirers. The Surrealists adopted him as one of their own, enchanted by his gaudy fairgrounds and prostitutes, his near-abstract depictions of stonework and staircases, and the way he sometimes reflected his own image in store windows. Later photographic greats - Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams - admired his ability to combine straightforward documentation with almost painterly finesse...
...lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point out the different shades of the cathedral's stonework: "It has taken seven centuries to produce this imperfection, which echoes the equally fascinating imperfection in our heads." But it's not merely a more optimistic spin that sets La Bella Figura apart. Rather, it's how intimately Severgnini discusses his countrymen - he makes you feel...
...route into his fears and sexual obsessions but as a much more benign vocabulary of forms that could be joined with other influences to produce--and overproduce--his enigmatic, spiritualized faces. Over the next few years he would learn to borrow as well from the simplified language of Cambodian stonework, early Christian statuary and the geometric abstraction of ancient Cycladic sculpture...
...sauces. The whole approach is tailor-made for busy Parisians in search of a lunchtime snack and a little something to take home for supper. Visiting New Yorkers contemplating its bright display cases and rows of prepacked salads may recognize Be as a deli. But with its natural stonework, low-key lighting and spray-finished zinc, it's a deli with a decidedly French flair. You won't find any six-packs of Budweiser, but you will be able to pick up a '98 Meursault for €107 a bottle. And for once the sandwiches are excellent...