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
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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.
France's Andre Malraux de
scribes the Last Judgment as
"an achievement without
precedent an epic of west
ern Christendom."
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Cease Fire Said
Violated by Reds
New Delhi, India -WD- The
Indian Foreign Ministry
charged Thursday the Chinese
Communists violated their
unilateral cease fire 34 times
between Nov. 21 and Dec. 2,
1062.
The ministry statement
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scheduled arrival of Premier
Mrs. Sirmavo Bandaranaikc
of Ceylon. She was traveling
from Peking with reported
Red Chinese "positive respons
es" to peace proposals drafted
by six Afro-Asian neutralist
nations to solve the Sino-ln-dlan
border dispute.
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red in the North East Frontier
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