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...works of Leonardo da Vinci, sometimes called the finest intelligence the world has ever produced, have had some curious outcroppings. Examples:>A Hollywood portrait of Fanny Brice painted in the pose of the Mona Lisa...
...painting of an American Indian Chief named Moon Trail by a blind woman who said her hand was guided by Leonardo from the spirit world...
Last week the real Leonardo, in all his masterly diversity, was better represented at popular prices than he ever has been before. Phaidon Press, formerly of Vienna and now of London, published a crown-folio-size book, Leonardo da Vinci, which was first-page art news for its broad inclusiveness, handsome reproduction, excellent taste and $4.50 pricing.* Included with the book's full gallery of Leonardo's paintings, drawings, mechanical designs and sculpture was a short foreword by compiler Ludwig Goldscheider and a reprinting of Vasari's classic 16th-Century life of the artist...
Immortal Charmer. Leonardo's life, with its lustrous and peculiar glints through the obscurities of history, will always have a fascination comparable to his work. He was born, out of wedlock, at the Tuscan town of Vinci, in 1452. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother a peasant woman. The bastard was brought up by his father. Precociously gifted in painting and drawing, he was sent to work with Andrea del Verrocchio, a sculptor and art teacher of Florence...
...Leonardo was a youth of great personal charm and extraordinary physical beauty which he paraded without reserve in the streets of Florence. Contemporaries picture him wearing a curly blond beard and walking in a short pink tunic while everyone else wore cloaks. He was proud to the point of arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...