Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wherever their commissions took them, and so their work became a graceful blend of French and Italian styles. Nice's Louis Brea, who founded a "dynasty" of painters, is perhaps the most famous name in the show, but no work surpasses the splendor of Jean Miralhet's Virgin of Misericordia...
Miralhet was born in Montpellier around 1394, died in Nice some 60 years later. He had studios in both Marseille and Nice, and Louis Brea is known to have worked with him. Though the Virgin of Misericordia, which hangs in the Chapel of the Black Penitents in Nice, is Miralhet's only known work, French experts still think it is evidence enough to rank him as one of the finest artists of his time. The time was one that lived in dread of the plague, and Miralhet's Virgin is shown tenderly shielding the city's population...
...skeleton of his story, which earned Kazantzakis the censure of the Greek Or thodox Church, contains such orthodox dogma as Jesus' virgin birth, miracles, divinity and (in forecast) resurrection. But Kazantzakis' Christ is far more man than God-a man torn, like Kazantzakis himself, between flesh and spirit, dark and light. "Within me," he wrote, "are the dark immemorial forces of the Evil One, human and prehuman; within me too are the luminous forces, human and prehuman, of God-and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met. The anguish has been intense...
...Virgin Mary herself is no cool, pale fresco by Fra Angelico-blue rings encircle her eyes in her "dark, wheat-colored skin," and she is miserable about her son Jesus' brooding and preaching: "God sent me but one boy, and he a blemished one." She wants him to be a man "like everyone else . . . Let him marry a nice young girl from a respectable home-with a dowry; let him be a liberal provider, have children, and then we'll all go out together every Saturday to the promenade-grandma, children and grandchildren-so that everyone can admire...
...nine attributed to him now hanging in the U.S., only three are authenticated beyond all reasonable doubt (see color). In 1948 Manhattan's Frick Collection bought The Education of the Virgin-a painting dominated not so much by the young Virgin or the brooding St. Anne as by the unearthly light shed by a candle that is partially shielded by the girl's translucent hand. In the Cleveland Museum's Repentant St. Peter, the spell is cast by a lantern that bathes St. Peter's ordeal in a glow of searing red that seems...