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...road to a whole number of ministries," insists Rene Schaller. "Through us, we want to stimulate ministries of the laity and of women in the church. We want to demonstrate that not only priests can be ministers, but also all the people of God." At a national workshop on the diaconate in Houston in December, Father Eugene Kennedy, a noted Chicago psychologist, predicted that the married deacons of today would be the prototypes for the priests of tomorrow...
...museum hardly ever reflects the latest state of scholarship-there is an inevitable time lag, in part not to offend donors, in part not to disillusion the public." Largely, when it is a question of whether something was produced by the master himself or by a member of his workshop (and many old masters maintained extensive workshops), the eyeball alone is still decisive. Bernard Berenson freely changed his attributions. In her reminiscences of B.B., his longtime librarian Nicky Mariano remembers how he would view a canvas years after the first inspection and reverse himself. "What of it?" he would...
From $325 to $ 12 million? The contrast is staggering. The Met's reattributions are not quite of that order, involving more whether to attribute paintings to workshop rather than to master. As Sherman E. Lee, the director of Cleveland's Museum of Art, emphasizes, who painted the picture is not the point. The point is the picture. Says he: "The whole problem of attribution is, fortunately or unfortunately, that it is tied to a value in money. This gets mixed in with the art, and people stop looking at the pictures and look at the labels...
...Today's workshop is the first of three being offered this year by the Afro-American Mini-Career Conference Committee and the Office of the Associate Dean of Students at Radcliffe...
...KING'S BOOK OF KINGS Text by Stuart Gary Welch. 168 pages. Metropolitan Museum of Art. $25. In 1522 an Iranian Sultan commissioned an illustrated version of the national epic Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings), and a vast workshop of artists labored on it for decades. Much of that book has now been reproduced in facsimile with explanatory text. The epic tells of ancient kings of Persia, real and mythical, beset by devils and dynastic rivalries. The pictures are Persian miniatures, with details so fine that they had to be painted with brushes made from kitten...