Vatican Pavilion
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Author : New York World's Fair 1964-1965 Corporation
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Page : 25 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Exhibition buildings
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Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1964
Category : New York World's Fair
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Author : Francesco Giordani
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Vatican City
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Art
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Release : 1964*
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Brochure with map and brief description of the exhibits of the Vatican Pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Includes mission statement of the exhibition, and list of souvenirs that can be purchased at the Pavilion Shop.
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Author : Time, Inc
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Page : 321 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 1964
Category : New York World's Fair
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Author : Bill Cotter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738536064
The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States. More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its reputation as "the Billion-Dollar Fair." With the cold war in full swing, the fair offered visitors a refreshingly positive view of the future, mirroring the official theme: Peace through Understanding. Guests could travel back in time through a display of full-sized dinosaurs, or look into a future where underwater hotels and flying cars were commonplace. They could enjoy Walt Disney's popular shows, or study actual spacecraft flown in orbit. More than fifty-one million guests visited the fair before it closed forever in 1965. The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair captures the history of this event through vintage photographs, published here for the first time.
Author : Ruth D. Nelson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2024-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501776924
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 Pietà, in the Vatican's pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City. As Ruth D. Nelson gracefully showcases, Moses believed this blockbuster would guarantee the fair's financial success. At the same time, Spellman, Cardinal of New York and the spiritual leader of Cold War America's Catholic community, hoped that at a time of domestic strife and global conflict, the Pietà's presence would have a positive spiritual impact on the nation. Although the fair did not turn out to be the financial bonanza that Moses expected, the Pietà drew record crowds of the faithful, art lovers, and the curious. Nelson's fascinating uncovering of the intensive planning that went into designing the pavilion, transporting the art piece across the Atlantic, and coordinating Pope Paul VI's visit to New York in 1965—the first papal visit to the Western Hemisphere—demonstrates the sheer scale and opportunity of the two men's endeavors. Our Lady of the World's Fair depicts the skepticism and fierce criticism that faced the two New York power brokers. Rather than letting the negative weigh them down, they united and called on every resource at their disposal to make this unlikely cultural coup possible.