Word: leonardo
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...bolder course of removing past additions in order to restore pictures to something approximating their original state. Sometimes they scrub with too much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness. Their greatest, and rarest, delight lies in discovering new and better pictures beneath the old, as Cellini did in Rome...
...spate of encomium, Churchill was compared with everything, from an endless cavalry charge to Leonardo da Vinci. As everyone tried his best to rise to the occasion-tempted, no doubt, by a wish to be as eloquent as Winston Churchill himself would have been-the London Economist was at last moved to remark that "Sir Winston Churchill is not dead. He has merely retired from the office of Prime Minister . . . The time has fortunately not yet come to write his obituary...
...formal science ofsilviculture began in France, after Leonardo da Vinci interested Louis XII in forestry...
...Leonardo was perhaps the most skilled painter who ever lived: he pictured bread on the table to seem near and crisp as bread on one's own table at home, and he could make even a little segment of sky as wide and mysterious as the sky itself. Beyond that, he could bind many different things, men and emotions into one unchanging harmony. The Last Supper incorporates all these powers, and more. It has been called, both in praise and dispraise, the most "literary" picture in history-and, overlaid with clumsy restorations, the picture did have somewhat the stilted...
...From left at the supper table (see center fold), Leonardo represented Bartholomew, James the Less, Andrew, Judas, Peter, John, Jesus, Thomas, James the Elder, Philip, Matthew, Thaddeus, Simon...