Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armor; at first glance, they look like Roman emperors. But their gentle, dreamy expressions and gestures are not a bit Roman. They seem powerless and wise, but not with earthly knowledge. Giuliano seems to be "held upright by the magic of the Madonna at whom he is looking." The Virgin, with the Child at her breast, sits at the center of the chapel's end wall. She is the focal point around which Michelangelo's half-classical and half-Christian little universe is clustered...
When the old Havana-Guanabacoa road was converted into a superhighway, a venerable travelers' shrine known as the Virgin of the Road was destroyed. The Virgin's friends and neighbors, fearful of Cuba's frantic traffic, protested, and the government commissioned Sculptress Rita Longa (seated, right) to make a new Virgin. Still to be consecrated, the new Virgin has been a quick success. Even at night Cubans toss money in the pool, stuff currency in her hand. The money, collected regularly ($112.28 last week), is given to an orphanage...
...this he ignored. In his right hand, outthrust before him, were three eggs, the offering he was bringing to the Virgin of Guadelupe at her shrine in Mexico City's suburb of Tepeyac. "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus," he chanted as he walked with eyes half-closed. And behind him a chorus, 7,000 voices strong, took up the chant of the rosary: "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners...
...Dear Virgin." These were the men of Querétaro, on their annual 163-mile pilgrimage to Mexico's greatest shrine. They were well-dressed businessmen, overalled city workers, shoeshine boys, campesinos, Indians from the high sierra. Behind the man with the eggs, Santiago Sánchez walked with arms outstretched, like Christ's on the cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with...
Thirty-five years ago the name would have stumped even the experts. But last week it was on many lips. In its first purchase for two years, Manhattan's conservative Frick collection had just bought La Tour's Education of the Virgin-the fourth U.S.-owned La Tour...