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RSDAY, JUNE 7, 1951 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Secret of Old Persian Craft— Douglas Maosadipt Brings Medieval Art to Life Given to Michigan U.

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C. Douglas have presented the miniséript of “The By ROSETTE HARGROVE [works at night engraving and|Big Fisherman” to the Univer. Times Special Writer {hammering out his designs. This sity of Michigan. Mr. Douglas PARIS, June T7-—An Intense, ldoesn’t seem to bother the chil- was pastor of the Congregational bushy-haired man who holds the dren. ‘ church here from 1915 to 1951. official title of “best worker in| “You see, #3 a pretty TRYLRIN LC, | [or o————————————— v

France” is also a living replica regular hammering,” he explains, | of the mediéval artist-craftsman. “When they were babies it would Y 0 U e A \ A

A master coppersmith and en- lull them to sleep.” ameler, as well as a talented vio-| linist, Robert Barriot's way of| life at the moment is as ancient’ as his craft,

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Mme. Barriot helps her husband in the more delicate stages of his work. Every enamel piece has to

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{be fired seven times, which means ‘Lost Through Ages’ {an all-night session with the giant Mr. Barriot got the idea of en- electric oven in the church base-| ameling copper 25 years ago. ment. “The ancient Persians knew the Mr. Barriot's most ambitious art,” he says, “but this was lostiveligious works are the seven down through the ages.” It took panels, each 12 feet high and 30 ie four years to work it out,'inches wide, representing the 24 and. today he’s the only crafts- old men of the Apocalypse. Cress | man who knows the secret. He's ated for St. Odile, they took two noted for other work, too—as a and a half years. sculptor on wood, an illustrator] on parchment, a silversmith, and | Art Objects in Demand | an interior decorator. Outside the church, however, A visit to the Barriot quarters,| {many wealthy art patrons seek just above the organ loft in the/the robust “profane” works he church, is like suddenly going finds time to create. These have back several centuries in time. |included friezes representing, The walls of the long, narrow,| among others, “Danse Macabre,” {low-ceilinged room, lit up by two “Gargantua,” and “The Seven Imullioned windows, is covered Deadly Sins,” all treated with the

with his work. Here and there realism and color of medieval art are antique cupboards into which and sculpture.

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$ no central heating, no bathtub! Chet did - or other modern conveniepce.| an aldermanic candidate in the FET Since family relaxation leans! icity election here, protested when toward the musical, the Barriots| the election board reported he rehave managed to squeeze a baby ceived no votes in his ward. “Ap-| grand piano, a spinet and a couple Parently I did not even ‘vaje for {of harps into their steeple. imyself.” White wrote, The board Mr. Barriot's work table is in checked and agreed he probably; ithe living room, where he usually! had not.

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