Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Stephen Tucker's simply designed set and the almost Gothic lighting effects designed by Jack Hanick complemented each other perfectly. Not since the Loeb's 1968 production of The Master Builder has a play's impact owed quite this much to its imposing physical trappings...
...turreted Gothic mansion at Henley-on-Thames used to be a Salesian Sisters' convent. Now the 35-acre estate will ring not to hymns but to a different sound of music. Beatle George Harrison and Wife Pattie have traded in their ranch-style Surrey bungalow and bought the 30-room domain...
...directors of the exhibition assert that the time bridging the traditional periods of Romanesque and Gothic has its own style, distinct from the other two. With an aesthetic between the geometric conception of Romanesque and the lush stylization of Gothic, the artists of the era 1200 depict graceful, expressive bodies that never overstep the refinement of their form...
...these exceptional accomplishments, however, art historians have traditionally looked upon the period as primarily a transition between Romanesque severity and Gothic naturalism. It is that, to be sure. But Thomas Moving, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and a medieval scholar, has long been convinced that Style 1200, as he calls it, is so distinctive that it merits consideration...
...exhibition, noticed the Christ figure in an Oslo museum last summer, remembered the Metropolitan's cross, and realized from their similar scale, design and delicate coloring that the two were probably at one time part of the same work. The Romanesque Christ was inhumanly serene; the later Gothic Christ was often all too humanly agonized. This 1200 Christ has both serenity and humanity, and thus sets the theme for the show...