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The Metaphorical Nature of Creation: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination ***Article taken directly from The Metropolitan Museum of Art website. April 23, 2018 Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute Left: Processional cross, ca. 1000–1050. Byzantine. Silver, silver-gilt, overall: 23 7/16 x 16 15/16 x 7/8 in. (59.5 x 43 x 2.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1993 (1993.163). Right: Gianni Versace. Evening dress, autumn/winter 1997–98. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Donatella Versace, 1999 (1999.137.1). Digital composite scan by Katerina Jebb "The Pope Wears Prada" Newsweek proclaimed in November 2005 in an article describing Benedict XVI's sartorial inclinations. "He may never make the best-dressed lists," the article asserted, "but Pope...

Carrara has also been a great school for sculptors. It has been said that even the quarrymen inherit a talent for fash ioning with the chisel, handed down through genera tions. Certain it is that a large number have become expert with the use of this tool. 

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