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French--' Artist Mailed tfoir Medneval Works By RODNEY GUILFOIL United Press International San Francisco (IPC A French artist who waited eight centuries for his first one-man show is being hailed as possi bly the greatest sculptor of medieval times. The artist was named Gisle bertus, and he lived in the 12th century. He had his first one-man show in Paris last year, and his first exhibition in the United States opened in mid-December at the M. H. Do Young Memorial museum in San Francisco. When the exhibition closes Jan. 27, it will go on a na tionwide tour. Its next show ing will be at the Flint, Mich., Institute of Art. Gislebertus won fame in the 12 century for the stone decorations he carved for the Cathedral of St. Lazarus in the town of Autun in Bergun dy, southeast of Paris. But by the 18th century, he had been forgotten. The canons of St. Lazarus cathedral had grown to despise his work as relics of a barbarian age and had covered much of his work with plaster and marble. The story of the rediscovery g v jp of Gislebertus began in 1837 when an archaeologist, the Abbe Devoucoux, came across a medieval document describ ing the scene of a last Judg ment carved across the west judgment a huge one with doorway of the cathedral. a colossal Christ and count- The Abbe Devoucoux had less other figures of angels, thp plaster covering removed devils, saints and sinners. It and there indeed was a last was in the Romanesque style Medford Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1963 PAGES 1 to 8 MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR-Shown here is the bcrtus. The book, ' Gislebertus, Sculptor in sculpture "Adoration of the Magi," carved Autun," is published by the Orion Press of on St. Lazarus Cathedral in Autun, France, New York. (UPI) by the 12th century French sculptor Gisle- Federal Employees Note Anniversary Federal employees of Jack son county are joining those of the nation m the observ ance this month of the 80th anniversary of the Civil Serv ice act, signed Jan. 16, 1883, by President Chester A. Arthur. Included in the observance are employees of such organi zations as the Veterans Ad ministration Domiciliary, post office department. Rogue Riv er National forest, Crater Lake National Park service, internal revenue service, so cial security administration, bureau of land management, bureau of reclamation and others. Medford Mayor James J. Dunlevy has issued a procla mation calling upon the peo ple of Medford to participate in the observance. "The work of federal em ployees affects every Ameri can every day," directors of the observance plans point out. "The 740 federal em ployees of Jackson county make a significant contribu tion to our welfare and economy and we extend our congratulations to them dur ing this anniversary. Blind Man Issued License To Hunt Seattle (UPC - A blind man took out a hunting license here Wednesday. In an effort to point out an inadequacy in Washington's hunting laws, Arnold Sadler, a Seattle attorney, and his seeing-eye dog, Heidi, appear ed at a downtown hardware store. He purchased a hunt ing license without a hitch. There is no restriction on vision as far as obtaining a hunting license Is concerned in this state. Sadler does not intend to go hunting. The Family Council Kditor's noir: The Family Council consists of a jucU a phychiatrlst, three rlerRvmen, three editors and a women's edititr. fcach article )t a summary of a, family disagreement presented to the Council. The Council deals with problems, major and minor, encountered by guidance counselors and social workers. Kdlted by Mrs. Alma Denny. (Copyright by General Features Corp.) This U the economical Ktuport 4-door sedan Renee H. - He doesn't have to accept this overseas assign ment. Joseph H. - There's no one else to g.0. They need me over there. Renee H. -1 think Joe real ly seeks out the assignments which take him away from home for long periods. Now his firm is sending him to Japan for eight weeks. He just got back from Mexico four months ago. How about me and our home and our small children? I need him around here. If I'd married someone in the Army or the Diplomatic Corps, I'd have been prepared for being on my own at short notice. We wouldn't have bought the big house, and I'd have been free to go along with him on some of his mis sions. But Joe was an archi tect working for a builder in Maryland. Suddenly they're branching out and Joe is the one they send all over. I want him to refuse and break in someone else. I can't take any more of these long absences. Joseph H. - A wife's first thought should be on helping her husband get ahead. Renee is behaving selfishly about my job. If I listen to her whin ing, I'll wind up being a glori fied office boy for the rest of my life. But if I grab the op portunities to shino, which theje trips abroad give me, I'll be a Vice-President of the corporation before I'm 40. The only other men who can do what I do on foreign sales are already officers of the business, and they're too old to run around the way I do. When I'm home-l'm a de voted, attentive husband and father. But Renee should look around and realize that the guys who are too domesticated never get very far in their careers. She should cooperate and some day we'll all be happy about my travels. The Council: While ponder ing this case we happened to run into an old friend, an Army colonel. He claimed that men under his command used to beg for faraway posts, and many of them proved to be family men who just wanted a good excuse to duck home re sponsibilities. To their wives they could say, "Sorry, dear. This hurts me as much as it hurts you. But, what can I do? Orders are orders, you know." The crux of the matter be tween Renee and Joseph is this: Are those trips really necessary and is he the only one who can make them? Or, does he finagle and wangle them as ways to effect a noble and official "desertion" of wife and home? We can't answer that. They're for Joe and his con science. To be fair, however, we'll match them with a few $64 ones for Renee, too. While you weren't "pre pared" for a frequently ab sentee husband, you should be prepared for the "or" in the marriage contract - the better OR worse. This includes the possibility of easy OR hard! Sure it's hard to be left alone with a big house, small children, and happy twosomes in all the other homes. But with your love for Joe, and your eye on the same goals, can you accept his absences as a sacrifice for the future? Can you make his brief sojurns at home "count" with you and your children, to sustain you morally while he's away? We agree it's a tall order. But Joe probably assumed he was marrying a girl who could fill any bill. " On the face of things, how ever, we'll dispute Joe's claim that he's the only one avail able for the firm's junkets. If he fell ill, they'd find someone else. Well, before his marriage gets sicker, he'd better turn down a few chances to flee -even though they're career-connected. of the 12th century, when the cathedral was built. Under the figure of Christ was the inscription in Latin: "Cislebcrtus hoc fecit" "Gis- Cottage Grove Man Enters Guilty Plea Eugene -WPU- Edward Dean Riley, 22, Cottage Grove, has entered a pica of guilty to charge of kidnaping, but en tered pleas of innocent to two charges stemming from a scries of incidents Dec. 29. Riley pleaded guilty to a charge involving the abduc tion of Cottage Grove police man James Cornell, his wife, Catherine, and Ray Harris, a passerby. He pleaded inno cent to charges of grand lar ceny and assault with intent to kill. He was charged with shooting and wounding Junc tion City policeman Dale Kolln and taking his police car. Mrs. Huckins entered pleas of innocent to the kidnaping and grand larceny charges. Three Men Injured In Fall at Portland Portland -IUP1I- Three men were hurt Wednesday when they fell 18 feet onto a con crcte patio from a roof they were shingling. Irving Long, 35, Portland, was hospitalized for a head cut and possible rib fractures. Norman Slein hauer, 32, Portland, and Charles W. Schmidt, Boring, were treated and released. lebcrtus made this." The head of the Christ had been lopped off, and it was not to be found for another 111 years in a pile of de bris. In 1858, a fragment of a figure of Eve was found in the walls of a house that was being demolished. The figure had come from the north door way of the cathedral. And in 1939, the marble facing that had been placed over the apse came down, and more stone carvings were dis covered. Ten years later, Arnold Fawcus, a British publisher, visited Autun for the first time. Subsequent visits con vinced him that the sculptor of the Last Judgment had also carved the Eve and 50 cap itals the lops of the col umns in the interior of the church. This conviction he shared with the Abbe Denis Grivot, choirmaster of the cathedral and a student of Romanesque architecture. Unknown Artisans Later they interested anoth er art expert, Dr. George Zer necki of London, and the three began 11 years of painstaking research leading finally to the publication of their conclu sions (Gislebertus, Sculptor of Autun," Orion Press, Inc., New York, $13.50). Most medieval churches were built and decorated over the years by anonymous work shops and artisans. And ex perts believed that it was not until Michelangelo's time that one artist was commissioned to decorate an entire cathe dral. But now it's believed that Gislebertus by himself decorated almost the entire cathedral at Autun two cen turies before the Italian mas ter. This was an unprecedent ed discovery in the history of medieval art. Who Gislebertus was, where he came from, and where ha went when he finished his great project at St. Lazarus, no one knows. But today, Gislebertus is being hailed among the great-. est artists of medieval Europe, and his Last Judgment at the Autun cathedral as one of the great landmarks in the history of sculpture. 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