Posted on 09/15/2020 12:41:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
Carrara marble is beautiful: the smoothness and intense light of this particular stone made it a favorite of masters in the Italian renaissance.
One of the greatest pieces is, of course, Michelangelo Buonarroti's "Pietà", in the Vatican Basilica, carefully restored after an attack made on it in the pontificate of Paul VI. Since the marble is white, the sculpture is all white: not just skin...but draperies, clothes, everything -- obviously.
Apparently, the currently woke-led Pontifical Academy for Life thinks attacking this image again, now virtually, is fair game for its "virtue-signaling" purposes:
We refuse to accept this creepy wokeness. There isn't a "Black Jesus" or a "White Jesus" (in this case, a Marble Jesus...).
Ping
White marble is raciss
Just a Archbishop that wants to advance the destruction of human civilization because he is bought and served by another master.
The academy helps the liberal anti Catholics in charge to destroy the faithful...
Archbishop Paglia
Any communications to said Archbishop should include somewhere that homosexual behavior is “intrinsically disordered”.
What are they crying about? They already have the Black Madonna in Poland and Russia.
But now he's "woke"!
Now why would a perfectly white Mary have a perfectly Black son? Idiots abound In The Vatican.
But 2 millennia of art show the irrepressible devotion of the artists in portraying Jesus and His Blessed Mother in the noblest and most beautiful ways they can conceive. This will vary by cultural epoch. There is nothing wrong with this. It is the homage of the artist's heart.
"...for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.--Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Kingfisher"
In the original, they have no flesh tones at all. It’s all canberra marble.
I’ve read the darkening came from centuries of votive candles, much like the Sistine Chapel was darkened from years of candles, till restored.
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