The quality of workmanship even in fields USUALLY held to be of lesser importance

A Vatican exhibit to evidence "quality of workmanship even in fields usually held to be of lesser importance." [emphasis mine]
http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/a1_en.htm
Ah, to be in Rome now that Benny's there.
For all I know, exhibits of this type are common as dirt, but surely a notable feature of this pontificate, most especially with the new MC, is that such items of the Church's patrimony are not merely fit museum exhibits, and this is regularly demonstrated with great force; any more than items from the vault that holds Her musical treasury are only to be taken out for early music concerts and background noise for the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Beauty MATTERS, and liturgical beauty most of all.

EXHIBITION OF MASTERPIECES FROM FABRIC OF ST. PETER'S
VATICAN CITY, 11 MAR 2008 (VIS) - "'Magnificenze Vaticane'. Masterpieces of Art from the Collections of the Fabric of St. Peter's" is the title of an exhibition due to be inaugurated this afternoon at Palazzo Incontro in Rome. It will remain open until 25 May...
Among the little-known works on display will be a roll of damask with the arms of Pope Alexander VII, pyramidal reliquaries by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, candelabra and crosses purchased by Pope Pius IX from the king of Naples, and a series of eighteenth-century altar hangings in silk and gold.
The 1400s are represented in the sculpture section with the Four Evangelists by Mino da Fiesole and Giovanni Dalmata, while the Baroque is present in the form of works attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Aligardi. In the painting section, fragments and frescoes from the interior of the basilica of St. Peter's will be on display for the first time. Documents from the General Historical Archive of the Fabric signed by Benevenuto Cellini, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno, Bernini and others will also be on show.