Word: leonardo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Surely Leonardo da Vinci had never painted a "dead" eye. Leonardo studied artillery, muscle fibres, ladies' lips, everything that quivered with life, mechanical or protoplasmic. He was the inspired archetype of the small boy who wants to know how things work. Sir Joseph Duveen could not believe that the painted "dead" eye was by Leonardo, nor, for that matter, that any part of the canvas had been colored by that amazing Florentine...
...LEONARDO THE FLORENTINE-A Study in Personality-Rachel Annand Taylor- Harpers ($6.00). Rich dignity in a biography of da Vinci, the central figure in a luminous tapestry of Italian Renaissance. A CENTURY OF FASHION-Jean Philippe Worth-Little, Brown ($7.50). Three generations of dressmakers dictate to society dowagers, famous actresses, and ladies of the evening. THE TWILIGHT OF THE AMERICAN MIND-Walter B. Pitkin-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). Provocative, logical, but curiously perverted warning against too much education, too thorough eugenics. *A managing editor of the Herald was asked if his office had any list of ''sacred cows...
...United States, following the dinner and meeting. The lecture which is open to the public will be given under the auspices of the department of Romance Languages and is to be held in Emerson D at 8 o'clock Professor Formichi will speak on "St Francis, Dante, and Leonardo di Vinci, as Expressions of the Italian Soul...
...Leonardo da Vinci, Engineer and Inventor," Mr. Usher, Widener...
...Leonardo da Vinci, Engineer and inventor", Mr. Usher, Widener...