Word: da
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather surprised to read in TIME, June 30 that Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks is in the Louvre. This painting is usually regarded as being the finest example of Da Vinci's work in this country...
...Both London and Paris proudly show an authentic Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo. The version in London's National Gallery is a later one, may have been painted in part by the master's assistants, Evangelisto and Ambrogio da Predis...
...team of three men with widely varied experience in show business: Composer (You and I, Two in Love] and oldtime Radio Performer Meredith Willson, 56, the jovial lowan who in his first try for the theater wrote book, music and lyrics; Director (No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame) Morton Da Costa, 44, who gave the show its sparkle and pace; and the Music Man himself, longtime Cinemactor Robert Preston, 40, known vaguely to millions of moviegoers for years as the handsome, thick-browed heavy of B pictures who rarely got the girl...
...ogre's mouth-Lasciate Ogni Pensiero Voi Que Entrate (Abandon all thought, ye who enter)-refer to the cup of forgetfulness ancient Greeks thought was drunk before crossing the river Lethe. The dragon-fighting lions (probably an oblique reference to political feuds) derived from a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. The elephant with castle was a symbol used to depict Eleazar's slaying of the beast of King Antiochus (/ Maccabees 6:17-46), a feat of self-sacrifice interpreted as prefiguring Christ's martyrdom. But many of Vicino Orsini's fantasies remain obscure...
Francis I, whose predecessor, Louis XII, is credited with bringing back Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks from Milan (he wanted to bring Leonardo's The Last Supper, but it was impracticable to remove the mural from the wall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie), is responsible for starting the Italian collection. Four of his Da Vincis and six Raphaels are still in the Louvre. When Catherine de Medici, a generation later, erected her own palace on the site of an old tile factory, the Tuileries, more than a quarter-mile away, and suggested...