Discusses the nature of sacred art and shares the author's experiences in commissioning works for the churches of Assy, Vence, Audincourt, and Ronchamp

Sacred Art

Couturier, M.A.

Arts & Photography

Menil Collection

This book treats the dome and apse paintings pirated from a small Greek Orthodox church isolated in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus in the years following the Turkish invasion of 1974. It lays out a remarkable threefold effort of restoration. First is their restoration, through their rescue from the shadowy underworld of the illegal art market, to public awareness and admiration, as described in Bertrand Davezac's introduction. Second is their physical restoration undertaken by Laurence Morrocco, who received the paintings cut by the pirates into thirty-eight segments which had lost their curvature. Morrocco developed techniques of unprecedented sophistication to return the flattened segments to their original shape and then to fit them together so nearly perfectly that the beauties of the work, e.g., the rhythmic waves made by the wings of the angels in the outer ring of the dome, have been preserved. He precisely details here his uncharted course over four years, capturing its aspect as a perilous adventure. A third restoration unfolds in Annemarie Weyl Carr's text as the paintings are restored to their historical and artistic context. Richly informative about the life and meaning of Byzantine art, the paintings have proved to be even more important in casting light on the culture of Cyprus in the thirteenth century, when Crusader conquerors, native Cypriots, and Middle Eastern immigrants joined in a vibrantly creative, symbiotic society. The book shows how crucial it is that we protect artifacts in their own shape and context, restoring them to the worlds that made, used, loved, and found meaning in them.

A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered, the Thirteenth-Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus

Carr, Annemarie Weyl

Morrocco, Laurence J.

160 pages with 107 illustrations 33 in color. Illustrated wraps. Introduction by Bertrand Davezac. Published in Association with the Menil Foundation.

A Byzantine Masterpiece Recovered: The Thirteenth-Century Murals of Lysi, Cyprus

History & Criticism

Catalogo della mostra dalla collezione privata della famiglia Menil, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston 1973. Testi di Werner Hofmann, Wieland Schmied e Werner Spies. 104 illustrazioni a colori e in bianco e nero. Profilo biografico dell'artista e bibliografia . 8vo pp. 160 Brossura (wrappers) Ottimo (Fine)

Max Ernst: Inside the Sight

Hofmann, Werner

Individual Artists

Gray Is the Color

Marandel, Patrice

Jim Love Up to Now: A Selection

The drawings and engravings of the French visionary architects Boullee, Ledoux, and Lequeu lie on the nervous cusp of Neoclassicism and hallucination. The three designed vast, impractical monuments, villas and temples, cathedrals and libraries, incorporating motifs from the classical era informed by the new intellectual freedoms of the Enlightenment. The resulting drawings and plans are like nothing done before or since, and their daring has reverberated through to us in the work of such architects as Speer, Graves, Sant'Elia, and Stirling.

Visionary Architects: Boullee, Ledoux, Lequeu

Lemagny, J. C.

Architecture

Magritte

BRETON, André

Yves Klein 1928 1962: A Retrospective

Dominique Bozo, Dominique de Menil Yves

Transfixed by light: Photographs from the Menil Foundation collection : exhibition at the Rice Museum, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, March 21-May 24, 1981 (Menil Foundation series)

Menil Foundation

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