Austria's placid art world was stirred up over a new stained-glass window. When it was first installed three years ago in the Church of the Holy Blood in Graz (pop. 226,453), nobody noticed anything unusual about it. But last month workmen renovating the church spotted two churlish types among the Romans watching
Christ receive his crown of thorns. One wore a toothbrush mustache; the other had a jutting chin. The resemblance to Hitler and Mussolini was too close for coincidence. Explained Designer Albert Birkle: "My pencil, as if by accident, drew the image of...
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