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Though not the most striking of Mayan "Old Empire" ruins, Bonampak is remarkably well preserved. Three stelae (record stones) have fallen on their faces, protecting their elaborate carvings from weather damage. Three intact inner rooms contain the most perfect specimens of Mayan fresco painting. In full color, Mayan kings, priests and warriors parade across the walls carrying umbrellas, waving fans, blowing horns and beating drums...
...flowing story. Ably supported by Akim Tamiroff, handsome George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between kisses to become one of the first men in history to put love on a paying basis. Beginning with their escape from prison when they are enlisted to pose for a fresco of St. George and the Dragon, the Mutt and Jeff team adroitly carries the plot through the various sequences to its culmination in an cerie death struggle over money...
Chemically, the Last Slipper had always been a bad risk. The refectory of Milan's convent church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Da Vinci painted the jfresco, was damp to start with. To make matters worse, Da Vinci, the eternal experimenter, invented special tempera pigments for the fresco, and they proved to be less durable than those then commonly in use. Even in Da Vinci's own lifetime the Last Supper had begun to fade, and as early as 1556 Art Historian Vasari complained that it had become "a muddle of blots...
Reported a TIME correspondent from Milan last week: "The head of Christ has nearly vanished. The faces of Philip and James the Elder appear to be completely corroded and are covered by a layer of saltpetrous calcinate which threatens to spread over the entire fresco. From a few feet away the apostles are an indiscriminate blur. The landscape originally visible in the background has disappeared...
...wall to drive the winter damp out. This winter they have no coal, and humidity, unchecked, will do more damage. A task force from the Italian Art Monument Department has made plans to rebuild the refectory. Professor Emilio Lavagnino, chairman of the Government committee in charge of the fresco, guessed gloomily that his work "offers a possible guarantee to keep the picture in some recognizable form for another 30 years-not more...