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...most famous of Prince Franz Josef II's 1,500 oils is Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra del Bend, a painting that is strikingly evocative of the Louvre's Mona Lisa. It is the only recognized Leonardo not yet on a museum wall. Such may not long be the case. In a front-page story, the New York Times last week reported that Ginevra* had caught the eye of the prince of collectors. Said the headline: $6 MILLION...
...With the Ginevra, Simon had even more reason for caution. Of the world's dozen Da Vinci experts, there are still two or three who question whether it is certainly by Leonardo's hand. Then, especially in the lower portion, it is in less than the pristine condition of the Mona Lisa. So when the prince's agents approached the meticulous millionaire with an offer to sell it for $7,000,000, he insisted that the price be reduced to $6,000,000 and that he have the right to take it to experts outside Liechtenstein...
...even more jealously guarded national treasure is Franz Josef's family art collection (TIME, Dec. 12, 1960), which consists of 1,500 paintings valued at $150 million. It includes the only Leonardo da Vinci in private ownership, a lush portrait of a Florentine maiden called the Ginevra dei Benci, as well as 27 Rubens paintings that are valued at $11 million, and paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Botticelli. The public is allowed to see only 75 of Franz Josef's lesser pictures, which are sandwiched into a modest building in Vaduz along with the tourist office...
...planning, court painting and sculpture. His painter's mind was increasingly and almost ruinously engaged by intellectual curiosity about the physical world. Leonardo ended by turning from art to science. His very painting was a scientific search-the plants and rocks in the background of the Portrait of Ginevra de' Bend seem to have been executed by a botanist and a geologist. As he began to satisfy himself with technical improvements in such matters as perspective and chiaroscuro, he gradually lost interest in tirt for art's sake...
...other three: Margaret Carry (now Mrs. Edward A. Cudahy Jr.), Ginevra King (now Mrs. William Hamilton Mitchell), Edith Cummings (unmarried...