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...quarter-mile stretch of pavilions that was once Venice's marine arsenal. This year the show is bigger than ever before−more than 5,000 works of art from 34 nations−but critics last week were grumbling that the "Biennale is going downhill." Wrote Italian Critic Leonardo Borgese: "The show leaves. . . a sense of emptiness and bitterness, a sense of humiliation; one feels all are guilty, and does not know precisely why." Replied an Italian museum director: "Whenever the critics are so angry, it indicates something important is going...
Heaven only knows how many women have despairingly practiced the Mona Lisa smile since Leonardo da Vinci painted her around 1505. And what was she smiling about anyway? Sixteen years ago Tiffany...
Cupids for Parade. For victory pageants, knights went all out for display, borrowing the services of such artists as Holbein, Dtirer. Leonardo da Vinci and Cellini for helmet designs and devices that were etched, gilded, embossed and damascened on the steel plate. The best Florentine painters of the day were called on to decorate ceremonial shields and banners. So dazzling were the results that one of Milan's great armorers, Tomaso Missaglia, was not only knighted but exempted from all taxes as well. Such splendid casques as Milan's other great armorer, Philip de Negroli, made for France...
...Juan Perón came to an official end last week. At a special ceremony, Vice President Isaac Rojas praised the National Investigating Committee- and as tactfully as possible explained the government's decision that the probe should now stop. A bit unhappy at the decision, Vice Admiral Leonardo McLean, the committee's zealous chief, summed up its work: the staff of about 2,500 had arrested 1,045 suspects, sent 314 cases to the courts, spent only $70,000 in 27 weeks of investigations. Its records will now go to the Wealth Recovery Board (TIME...
...early drawings the Classical and Italian influences are most clear. The head of Niccolo da Uzzano done after Leonardo shows unusual restraint and severity. The expression is matched by later drawings of two Roman busts but these are done with a more decorative and expressionistic use of pen and ink. Problems of foreshortening and uncharacteristic inhibition in proportion reflect youthful weakness in one or two drawings, but we have in the study for the figure of Christ, "Raising of the Cross" already a drawing of exceptional merit. All parts of the body add to the general momentum. There is power...