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MANHATTAN'S staid Frick Collection last week put on display the elaborately splendid painting opposite. Begun by Jan van Eyck, and finished after his death by his disciple Petrus Christus, it has the grace and precision, the atmosphere of Tightness and relaxation, common to Early Flemish masterpieces. The picture shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saints Barbara and Elizabeth of Hungary. Kneeling in adoration is the Carthusian prior who commissioned the painting for his church in 1441. Acquired a century ago by Paris' Baron de Rothschild, the picture has now passed to the Frick-for a rumored...
...morning last January, two young Boer farmers named Petrus and Pieter Gouws drove up to their neighbor's farm on the parching South African veld. The Gouws asked for Joseph Mokwatsi, a 17-year-old Negro employed as a field hand, explaining to his master: "We think he stole two jackets, and we want him to show us where he hid them." Joseph was handed over; the Gouws tied a leather thong around his neck, threw him into their truck and drove...
...left in the sun, tied to the truck with a thong around his neck. At last, Uncle van Schalkwyk decided to try his hand at making Joseph talk. "I gave him about four blows on the back and buttocks," Van Schalkwyk said. Joseph still denied stealing. Pieter and Petrus then bound his hands and feet and slung him horizontally between two automobiles. When they cut him down, Joseph fell in a heap...
Pius entered the basilica, under a velvet and damask canopy, while the choir sang the triumphant Tu es Petrus. Then, with members of a Catholic Action youth group, he recited the prayer he wrote for the Marian Year: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect...
...Petrus Christus' Dionysius the Carthusian. This small, serene, meticulous portrait of a monk (on wood panel) is often considered the gem of the Bache collection...