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Manhattan's massive Metropolitan Museum has added a tiny new prize to its treasures-an 8 in. by 6⅛ in. drawing of the Virgin by Leonardo da Vinci. Done in black and red chalk on specially prepared paper, it was evidently a study for the Louvre's famed oil of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne; it has the left-to-right shading that left-handed Leonardo favored...
Most important, it shines with the Gioconda smile, tight yet tender, fleeting yet eternal, which was Leonardo's strangest and least imitable gift to human imagination. The drawing may have taken the artist no more than an hour to do; the Met bought it in May at a London auction...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks...
...Halles [Paris' central market] dressed in a tuxedo and with a terrific hangover, and tried to sell father's bananas. Naturally he fired me, and gave me an allowance to copy the old masters in the Louvre. I found it perfectly easy to copy Leonardo, El Greco and Delacroix, but Goya was too difficult for me on account of his half-tones. After one year in the Louvre I decided to stay in my room and do my copying from reproductions. Father never knew the difference...
...stoop-shouldered, cosmopolitan Muscovite, who left Russia in 1920, easily explained how & why he had produced the drawings. "As a youth, taking Leonardo for my model," he began, "I went dutifully to the anatomy theater in Moscow. Later I was found in a dead faint on the pavement outside . . . But Mrs. Nature you can't fool with her. She's a tenacious woman . . . Twenty years later I discovered what a marvelous transparent vessel the human being is-like a crystal jungle. From that time on, I was trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then...