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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...
...famous Renaissance masters. Back in 1920, Art Dealer Edward Fowles had thought so when he purchased it in Rome for upward of $40,000. Considered to be the original for a marble in the Bargello museum, the bust was then attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio or possibly his pupil, Leonardo da Vinci, by the Bargello's director and the late connoisseur Wilhelm von Bode...
...will subject it to a series of exhaustive tests, but even before the results are in, Met Curator of Western European Art John G. Phillips predicts that it will prove to be the original from which the Bargello bust was made. Furthermore, he believes that it is by Leonardo da Vinci...
...even when he died. Historians passed him by, and the only accounts he left of his own life are nagging reminders of the difficulty he had collecting payment for his paintings. One can perhaps forgive his age for slighting Girolamo Romanino. It was, after all, in love with Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Michelangelo...
...famous boxers. To raise everyone's low spirits, a pair of Manhattan abortionists (Severn Darden and Anthony Holland) are flown in to minister to the sculptor's girl friend. In a campy comedy sequence played for somewhat more than it is worth, they debate the merits of Leonardo da Vinci while performing their grisly chore, then depart for Kansas City. "One of the most serene of cities," Darden coos. "The Benares of the Middle West," Holland concurs...