In the early 1960s artist Millard Sheets was commissioned to create a mural large enough to cover the south face of the Hesburgh Library on the University of Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Indiana. The work had to be visible from the football stadium and have a theme of saints and scholars throughout the ages. “As the composition evolved, the figure of Christ the Teacher was developed with arms raised in what has become …showed first 75 words of 1883 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1883 total…that it is. Don’t get me wrong, it not up there with the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, or the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but it does have some importance. For me and others, it shows that art can be created on a large scale, out of large stone slabs, and on the side of a building and still be beautiful and get its message across to those who see it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**