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Spanish Romanesque paintings were executed between the 11th and 13th centuries, when Western European man was emerging from the dark ages toward the high noon of Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
...protests rolled in, including a petition with 5,000 signatures, both Republican and Democratic candidates for mayor in the Nov. 5 election came out in favor of saving the manse. Socialist Mc Levy, who is running for a 13th term, sent his men out to tear down the greenhouse, but held off advertising for bids on demolition of the house. Walnut Wood seemed to have won a stay of execution-until after the election...
...aircraft and immersed Michener in Michener's favorite ocean. Rescued after 90 minutes on a life raft, uninjured Passenger Michener mourned the loss of 1½ year's worth of notes and manuscripts. Half an hour later, wrung out and in borrowed togs, Michener, again the 13th man aboard, was winging north on another C-47. On reaching Japan he allowed: "I sure came the hard...
...welcome back their revered altar, 6,000 devout Poles thronged the 13th century Roman Catholic church and the small square outside one day in August while a solemn Mass of thanksgiving was offered. And for good reason. Cracow's altar is not only the largest Gothic altar in Christendom, but the greatest masterpiece carved by Veit Stoss, the German sculptor who. along with his younger contemporaries Mathias Grunewald, Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach. brought the art of the Middle Ages to its great and final climax...
FAIR TRADE is out in New Mexico, 13th state to rule that manufacturer cannot dictate minimum retail prices. State Supreme Court threw out clause that says if one store signs a fixed-price pact all stores must uphold it. Exempted: fair-traded tobacco products and liquor...