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Holy Moses and More An exhibit of medieval religious frescoes from the Vatican Museums on display in . . . Lubbock? Let that sink in—like paint applied to wet plaster on a permanent wall. Wouldn’t you have to move the whole wall? Well, no, says the Reverend Malcolm Neyland, the priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Lubbock, who has worked for fourteen years to bring the first-ever exhibition of this collection of original frescoes to the High Plains. The frescoes were carefully removed in the mid-eighteenth century from two ancient Roman churches (St. Agnes Outside the Walls and St. Nicholas in Prison), attached to a canvas backing, and restored in 1930 and 1931. Never before exhibited in their refreshed state, the works range from…
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Holy Moses and More An exhibit of medieval religious frescoes from the Vatican Museums on display in . . . Lubbock? Let that sink in—like paint applied to wet plaster on a permanent wall. Wouldn’t you have to move the whole wall? Well, no, says the Reverend Malcolm Neyland, the priest in the Roman Catholic diocese of Lubbock, who has worked for fourteen years to bring the first-ever exhibition of this collection of original frescoes to the High Plains. The frescoes were carefully removed in the mid-eighteenth century from two ancient Roman churches (St. Agnes Outside the Walls and St. Nicholas in Prison), attached to a canvas backing, and restored in 1930 and 1931. Never before exhibited in their refreshed state, the works range from…The post Fine Art appeared first on Texas Monthly.
