Word: leonardo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeble bodies. It is the type of argument that impresses the layman, being made so dogmatically that he feels that it must have some basis of fact. The first point becomes absurd when once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born out of wedlock. It is moreover, no guarantee of greatness in a nation that its people spawn promiscuously in order to provide greater opportunity for high-grade germ cells' meeting...
...Fogg Museum at noon today Professor Post will give his second lecture on Leonardo da Vinci...
...committee will explain what the Institute means by "collaboration" among U. S. architects, mural painters, landscapists, sculptors. The Institute's representatives on the new committee. include celebrated teachers aswell as practitioners-bristling little Paul P. Cret, whom students at the University of Pennsylvania regard as another Leonardo; able Everett V. Meeks, dean of fine arts at Yale; George W. Kelham, who supervised the Panama Exposition and builds for the University of California; Sidney Lovell of Chicago and J. Monroe Hewlett of Manhattan...
...world's history has the art of painting risen to greater heights than in the period known as the Italian Renaissance; in no place was it more assiduously practiced than in Florence. Here lived and worked such men as Fra Angellco, Castagno, Venocchio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo. Andrea del Sarto names that are above all others in the art of painting. At 11 o'clock this morning, in the New Fogg Museum, Professor Edgell will discuss the lives and works of the earlier members of the Florentine School...
...Professor Post's lecture, on the other hand, the vagabond who has chosen to spend the 12 o'clock hour at Fogg, will hear of an art equal to any that the earth has ever produced, which was reaching its culmination in those two giants of the Renaissance Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo...