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The Resurrection (La Resurrezione) is a bronze and brass sculpture by Pericle Fazzini in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome. [1] Intended to capture the anguish of 20th century mankind living under the threat of nuclear war, La Resurrezione depicts Jesus rising from a nuclear crater in the Garden of Gethsemane. Fazzini summarized the action of ...
It is dominated by an 800-quintal (80-tonne) bronze/copper-alloy [3] sculpture by Pericle Fazzini entitled La Resurrezione (Italian for The Resurrection). [4] [5] A smaller meeting hall, known as Synod Hall (Aula del Sinodo), is located in the building as well. This hall sits at the east end on a second floor.
The Texas Memorial Museum building was designed in the Art Deco style by John F. Staub, with Paul Cret as supervising architect. Ground was broken for the building by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1936. [1] The museum was opened on January 15, 1939. The museum won "Best of Austin" awards from the Austin Chronicle in 2002, 2005, and ...
Pope Francis's weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday was briefly interrupted by two women from an animal rights group, who shouted and held up signs against bullfighting. The women ...
Papal tombs; Papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica; Paul VI Audience Hall; Tomb of the Julii; Torre San Giovanni; Scala Regia; Via della Conciliazione; Vatican Climate Forest; Vatican Heliport; Vatican Hill; Vatican Necropolis; Papal Concert to Commemorate the Shoah; Postage stamps and postal history of Vatican City; Public holidays in ...
When the Kimbell Art Museum secured Jean Siméon Chardin’s “The Basket of Wild Strawberries” at auction for almost 24.4 million euros ($26.4 million) last March, the Texas institution ...
The facility, established by the Texas Legislature on May 27, 1965, [3] originally served as the Texas Pavilion at HemisFair '68 before being turned over to the University of Texas System in 1969. UTSA assumed administrative control of the museum in 1973. In 1986, the system designated the institute as a campus of the University of Texas at San ...
Scott Myers (born 1958) is an American painter and sculptor who lives and works in Texas.He graduated Texas A&M University in 1984 with a doctorate in veterinary medicine. . He studied sculpture throughout Italy focusing on Florence, Venice and Ro