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...energy outlining the irregularities of famous people to his students, resulting laughter, if any, comes not as approval of the instructor, but as a polite means of expressing curiosity that the chaste-looking young man should care so much for smutty details. The average undergraduate as not easily duped; chalk-throwing, stalking from side to side, original arm-motions, and other attempts at exalting the Unusual Personality merely rile him or inject utter despair...
...least one dated drawing for every five years of Leonardo's career. The drawings begin vigorously and experimentally, turn precise and dry, explore and finish the possibilities of silverpoint, then drop silverpoint entirely, solve the problems of shading in concave spaces to define forms, turn to red chalk in a bold, open style, then to pen & ink and black chalk, once again with exquisite neatness but with a new heavy deliberation and economy. Finally, as the paralysis began to clamp on the heavy-bearded, 60-year-old man, Leonardo was finishing his appalling Deluge series of calamity and death...
...after her death he left Sforza and stopped at Mantua where he saw the elder sister, Isabella, in her own magnificent court. He was 47 she 25, already a brilliant, beautiful Latin aristocrat of the Renaissance. She made him promise to paint her portrait and he did a preliminary chalk drawing, which is now in the Louvre. He moved on to Florence and finally in 1502 into the employ of the "Bloody Borgia," Cesare, to follow for a year in the violent wake of the Borgia's bull bannerols. He got many a letter from Isabella inviting...
...such talk Pilot Gehlbach's answer is blunt and brief: "I'll fly anything, anytime, anywhere, for money, marbles or chalk...
...feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered. A slight hush fell on the combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid further trouble." Then Sims enraged Culbertson in the one hundred and thirteenth rubber by protesting that eighteen minutes was a little too long a time to ponder before playing a single card...