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Overtures. Francis I had reason to be infatuated with Italy. He had conquered some of it in 1515, when he was only 21; and the first Italian artist to come under his barely fledged wing was Leonardo da Vinci, who went to France and died in the royal chateau at Amboise in 1519. But when the King turned to the remodeling of Fontainebleau, his chances of getting another such hero of the High Renaissance were gone. Raphael was dead. Michelangelo rebuffed Francis' overtures. That left younger men, notably Rosso, who had been cut adrift by the sack of Rome...
...time when Dada was in full swing and Surrealism was about to be born. One purpose of Dada was to negate everything that art had stood for in the past. Yet Ernst's love of images that rise from chance blots has a pedigree that goes back to Leonardo, who spoke of finding battle scenes in stains on a wall. His obsessive themes-the haunted garden of decaying vegetation, the birds and chimeras, the figures of Loplop and La Belle Jardinière-describe a territory of imagination that seems both mysterious and exactly mapped...
...This airport is like the Inferno. One manages to get into it, one is badly off inside and one doesn't know how to get out." So a Belgian priest complained to the management of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Intercontinental Airport, less grandly known as Fiumicino (Little River). Infernal it is. On an average day the 22,000 passengers who land, take off or transit at Fiumicino on 62 different commercial carriers participate in a drama worthy of Dante...
...Italian Renaissance promo, he decorated the main downtown Houston store with $3,000,000 worth of borrowed Renaissance paintings and tapestries. (Once inside the store, shoppers bought plenty of Italian and French dresses that were specially designed for the promotion, as well as bed linens with prints of Leonardo's inventions and Italian silk ties with the insigne of the House of Borgia.) This week, in Sakowitz's annual wine auction, the store will sell off rare vintages, including one of the eight remaining Jeroboams of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1929. All this activity has been more than culturally...
...palazzi to be used as backdrops and famous ladies like Isabella d'Este to be viewed. Painting the Last Supper on the wall of Milano's Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, experimenting with flight and war machines, feuding with that young punk and fellow genius Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci may yet prove that not even television can keep a good Renaissance man down...