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Show Elaborate Carving by Monks. A wood carving descriptive of the life of Christ, on which five monks worked for lo years, is now on exhibition exhi-bition in New York. The carving, valued at $15,000, was brought to the states by Father Germanos Ageltes, one of the monks who made it in the monastery of the Brotherhood of Nico-iemus, Nico-iemus, at Mount Athos. Macedonia. The composition is 2S inches high and 21 inches wide, and includes a hundred hun-dred figures in high and low relief. The central figure is "The Last Judgment," Judg-ment," reproducing in wood the detail of Michael Angelo's famous painting. |