Focus on Hope Cemetery: In the early 20th century, immigrants from northern Italy brought their chisels and hammers to the Green Mountains and applied them to one of the world's greatest reserves of tombstone-quality granite. Back in the old country, they had role models like Michelangelo. In Vermont, they became role models. Marking the grave of Albert Ceppi is a bas relief of the sculptor drawing both himself and Jesus out of a granite block: a dual resurrection. [2002]
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Wonderful example of the difficulties of interpreting pictorial data correctly:
ReplyDeleteI, reverently, believe the man is holding a pneumatic air sander or polisher up to Jesus' beard.
Others, unfamiliar with Roman script, ill informed about the Christian religion, and unaware of their ethnocentric biases might believe --holy smoke!-- that he is offering the other person the smoking end of a hookah or qalyän.
To make the correct connections may be quite challenging.