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...works Leonardo da Vinci left posterity, only one has been recognized as a self-portrait: a red chalk drawing showing a fierce, lion-headed old patriarch with a furrowed brow and burning eyes. Last week an Italian artist and scholar by the name of Lorenzo Ferri insisted that he had found a second. The face of the Apostle Thaddeus, he said, second from the right in Leonardo's famed Last Supper* is none other than that of the painter himself...
...resemblance between Leonardo and the apostle first struck Ferri in 1937, when he painted a reproduction of the Last Supper for a Franciscan refectory in Bengasi, Libya. Later, he pored over portraits of Leonardo by contemporary artists, studied descriptions, drew up charts detailing the painter's hair, beard, nose, eyes, mouth and cheekbones. He photographed the original to compress and sharpen the faded outlines, then worked in the features, adding light and shadow. After years of work, Ferri has a 328-page illustrated manuscript crammed with his notes and impressions. One impression: the Apostle Thaddeus' whole manner...
Rome's art scholars greeted Ferri's announcement with deep skepticism. "Every painter," snorted Expert Lionello Venturi, "shows something of his own appearance in his paintings...
...offensive against the Reds was led by a rugged, fiery Corsican, Pierre Ferri-Pisani, now 50. He and Brown had met in-Marseille, become friends. With Brown's help, Ferri-Pisani found "men brave enough," went to Communist headquarters in Marseille and delivered an ultimatum: "If there is any trouble on the docks, we will not bother with the men you send to cause it. No, within 48 hours we will ask you to pay personally." Red bosses ran for police protection. The first Communist who tried to fire Ferri-Pisani's men was chucked into the harbor...
...Communist campaign boomeranged completely. U.S. arms were unloaded at European ports. Says Ferri-Pisani: "Brown was decisive. He was the only one to back us before we even had a union...