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Credit for opening up the field to modern artists belongs to Jean Verrier,* who as inspector general of historic monuments made a bold effort to end rigidly traditional restoration. But the man who most energetically carried on the crusade was a Dominican monk, Father Marie-Alain Couturier (TIME, June 20...
France is full of new chapels by artists and architects and some who are not. After Matisse and the Vence chapel came Jean Cocteau recently to do murals for a chapel at Villefranche on the Riviera. The most peculiar chapel of all is the one designed by painter, sculptor, and...
Gypsy Blessing. But as dedication day approached, excitement steadily mounted in Ronchamp. A steady stream of famous visitors had replaced the villagers' early doubts with growing pride. Said Dominican Father Regamey, whose order sponsored Matisse's chapel at Vence: "Le Corbusier's modulated chapel in reinforced concrete...
Proceeding under the assumption that it was necessary for Matisse "to extend his visual ideas in many directions to realize his full creative force" a University Course Exhibition has been arranged at Busch-Riesinger Museum containing many different objects of the late artist's work, including a chasuble designed for...
Died. Count Michael Karolyi, 80, one of the founders (in 1918) and first President of the Hungarian Republic; in Vence, France. Karolyi lived in exile through the years of the Horthy regime, returned after World War II, was Red Hungary's Ambassador to Paris from 1947 until his retirement...