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...swords of kings to magnificently engraved crossbows for the attendant men-at-arms. But in the long history of weaponry, nothing quite matches the superb decoration of firearms developed during the Renaissance when physics and art, ballistics and sculpture were united under the guidance of such artistic geniuses as Leonardo da Vinci...
...manufacture of firearms was an exacting, highly skilled craft, and most great gunmakers were often jewelers or watchmakers, even scientists. It was a French goldsmith who invented one of the first true flintlocks; and although he was never a professional gunmaker, Leonardo da Vinci designed one of the first wheel locks. The makers of the best firearms took tremendous pride in their craft, signed their names to weapons along with dates, proverbs and poetry, and passed on their skills from father to son, sometimes over centuries...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series: James S. Ackerman, Professor of Fine Arts, on "Leonardo's Light. An Encounter of Renaissance Art and Science." Emerson Hall...
...paintings, now being examined in Paris. A $150,000 Jackson Pollock will go to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. But the lion's share, ten paintings bought from Wildenstein & Co.-including four Goyas, three Murillos, a Zurbarán, a Juan de Sedilla and a José Leonardo-will go directly to S.M.U., to become part of a collection that includes some 300 other Spanish paintings and drawings, valued at $3,000,000, given by Meadows in recent years...
...Marks for Harvard in 1935, Lowell had written in an essay on the Iliad: "Its magnitude and depth make it almost as hard to understand as life." So soon, Lowell had put art and life on a parity. At Harvard, he lolled in his room, surrounded by prints of Leonardo and Rembrandt, listening to Beethoven on his phonograph. He wrote poems full of violence and foreboding, black roses, a "plague" that "breathed the decay of centuries." No one then at Harvard was interested, so Lowell took his verses to Robert Frost, who was living near by. Frost read the first...