Other contributors will make up the balance, basilica spokesman Kevin Mukri said.
and Bertha Braddock, of Alexandria, contributed $1 million through their charitable organization, the Aztec Foundation. The cost for the project could reach $2 million, Bransfield said. Marble cladding was laid over the brick as money allowed, beginning around the time of Luci Baines Johnson's wedding at the shrine in 1966. The entire interior of the Great Upper Church (the nave) was finished with brown brick when the shrine was dedicated in 1959. Bransfield, rector of the church for the last 11 years. The project also includes placing marble cladding over the masonry walls of the narthex, just behind the sculpture, said Monsignor Michael J. Once the marble reaches the basilica floor, installation will take about three weeks. Most likely, a crane will lift the 16 pieces to the top of the entrance stairs, where they will be transported through the small openings by "some large, rubber-tired vehicle."īuilding scaffolding to raise the marble into place will take about six months, and the carving up to eight months at a studio in Pietrasanta, on the west coast of Italy. Segreti said he isn't quite sure how he will get the marble sections through the basilica doors. Carr will make trips to Italy to observe the translation of his design into slabs of Botticino marble more than a foot thick. Russell, the Democrat from Georgia who was one of the all-time parliamentary masters in the Senate. Hart on statues of former president Jimmy Carter and Richard B.
"It's the hardest stint of work I've ever done," said Carr, who created a monumental sculpture last year for Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and assisted Frederick E. Carr's task was to carve details of figures in the model, which was cast in plaster for shipping to Europe. He then commuted four days a week for seven months to a studio in Chester, Pa., that was selected to construct a full-scale model of Styrofoam and plasteline, an artificial oil-based clay. Hickey of the Archdiocese of Washington and designed by Silver Spring artist George Carr, who calls the sculpture a "high relief," meaning the figures are cut more deeply into marble for more detail than those in a bas relief.Ĭarr made drawings and created scale models in a rented studio near the shrine in Brookland. The work was conceived by Cardinal James A. It will hang 19 feet above the floor at the rear of the nave, said Segreti, who was supervising architect at Washington National Cathedral - the shrine's older and slightly larger Anglican counterpart across town - during its completion in 1990 and who remains its consulting architect. The sculpture, titled "The Universal Call to Holiness," will be 52 feet long and 15 feet wide. Segreti, who designed an aluminum shelf for the sculpture to rest on and a steel support system to reinforce the wall. "It's a big piece of work, let me tell you," said project architect Anthony J. Installation of the 50-ton marble artwork, planned for fall 1998, will complete major structural additions to "America's Catholic Church." Work will begin in Italy next month on a monumental wall sculpture for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast Washington.
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