![]() ![]() “They will see something beautiful, and that’s part of the Catholic imagination,” he said. Bolton and colleagues if he thought the presentation would prompt any blowback, Father Martin said there may be some complaints about “celebrity culture being grafted onto the church,” but that he thought it would be minor. ![]() He was impressed by what he described as the “real attention to Catholic sensibilities” behind the pairings.Īsked by Mr. Bolton work with James Martin, a Jesuit priest and editor at large for America Magazine, who was appointed last year by Pope Francis as a consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications.įather Martin said that one day, after embarrassingly spilling hummus on his pants earlier, he went to a Met conference room to review the storyboards the curators had pinned to the walls with thumbtacks. He asked Emily Rafferty, a former president of the Met with connections to New York’s Catholic community, for a hand. “They belong to the Sistine Chapel Sacristy.” “These vestments don’t belong to the Vatican Museum,” she said, according to Mr. Jatta then informed the curator that the lending of the pieces was, anyway, out of her hands. (The Met eventually got more than 40.) Ms. Wintour said he needed to ask for at least twice that, prompting a skeptical laugh from Ms. Jatta asked how many items the Met intended to borrow, and Mr. Jatta arranged several tours for them, including another trip to the Sacristy, where this time Father Benedik’s assistant, Antonio, showed them around. Bolton meet with Barbara Jatta, now the director of the Vatican museum. Nesselrath suggested that on his next visit, Mr. ![]() “He wasn’t quite sure what the request was,” Mr. Bolton tried to explain the concept of the exhibition to the keeper of the sacristy, a quiet Slovakian priest named Pavel Benedik. Bolton to visit the Sistine Chapel Sacristy, a chamber of rooms within rooms containing a hive of numbered wooden doors and drawers bearing embossed strips and containing shawls and stoles, papal tiaras, papal rings and pectoral crosses. Bolton’s in the Met’s European paintings department put him in touch with Arnold Nesselrath, a Vatican museum curator. Dealing with one church proved to be enough. Bolton first envisioned as including many religious traditions. While the Vatican may be enthusiastic about “Heavenly Bodies” now, it took years for it to warm to an exhibit that Mr. Bolton explained his vision for the project that would explore the way the Catholic church had served as an inspiration to designers through the centuries. ![]() Bolton discussed the role of beauty in the church and Mr. The archbishop gradually became enthusiastic as he and Mr. Bolton felt matched with certain Vatican treasures.Īrchbishop Gänswein, in a soutane with purple sash, indifferently flipped pages of designer frocks until he lingered on a luxurious Madame Grès dress inspired by a Franciscan habit. In May 2017, Archbishop Gänswein sat in his stately Apostolic Palace office as Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, showed him a look book of couture masterpieces that Mr. The dashing former right-hand man to Benedict XVI, the fashion-plate pope, he is now prefect of the papal household under the more austere Pope Francis. VATICAN CITY - Archbishop Georg Gänswein said yes to the dress. ![]()
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