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Our Lady of the World's Fair: Bringing Michelangelo's Piet? to Queens in 1964

Our Lady of the World's Fair: Bringing Michelangelo's Piet? to Queens in 1964 - Hardcover

by Ruth D. Nelson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ruth D. NelsonPublish date:2024-09-15Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Three HillsISBN-13:9781501776908ISBN-10:1501776908UPC:9781501776908Book Category:History, ArtBook Subcategory:United States, History, Sculpture & InstallationBook Topic:20th Century, EuropeanSize:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCJYT5DYFQ

Our Lady of the World's Fair reveals the remarkable story of how two of New York's most influential leaders persuaded the Vatican to allow one of the world's greatest works of art to leave Europe for the first and only time. Driven by different motives, Robert Moses and Francis Cardinal Spellman had the same vision: to display Michelangelo's masterpiece, the Piet?, in the Vatican's pavilion at...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Three HillsISBN-13:9781501776908ISBN-10:1501776908UPC:9781501776908Book Category:History, ArtBook Subcategory:United States, History, Sculpture & InstallationBook Topic:20th Century, EuropeanSize:9.40 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCJYT5DYFQ

Ruth D. Nelson is an instructor in art history at the College of DuPage, and the author of Searching for Marquette. Nelson was selected as a State of Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar, and she is a recipient of the Rakow Grant for Glass Research from the Corning Museum of Glass.


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