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When Napoleon's troopers stabled their horses in Milan's monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie and scribbled on Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, they were behaving as soldiers have always behaved in Europe's wars. But Axis vandalism against other nations' cultures has been deliberate and systematic...
...books (called the Air-Age Education Series) add an aeronautical third dimension to mathematics, physics, biology, history, geography, economics, politics, even literature. History lessons now plug a new crop of aero-heroes (from Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright Brothers). Biology lessons describe what happens to a pilot when he blacks out. Social science lessons picture a post-war world of "aerial freight trains," and decentralized living. Anthologies of the rich, adventurous literature of flying enliven English lessons...
...have planned these acres for their consecrated purpose." Over the grounds which Copywriter Bruce Barton once dubbed "a first step up toward Heaven" are ranged "the greatest collection of large marble statuary figures in the country." Other works of art include a vast stained-glass window reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, an 87-ft. Tower of Legends which is also a reservoir holding 165,000 gallons of water...
...attempted to stimulate its 3,733 subjects in a wide variety of ways and having carefully tabulated their reactions, the Institute solemnly announced that—Chicago students like the streamlined deminudes of U.S. Magazine Artist George Petty. After Esquire's Petty, students coolly chose (in order of preference): Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, George Innes, Claude Monet, Doris Lee, Winslow Homer' Jules Breton, Caravaggio, Renoir, Manet,' John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh. Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich blanched not a whit. Said he: "It was perfectly natural. The students like pretty girls and they like slick technique...
Fame. Of all the artists flourishing in the 16th-Century Rome of Popes Julius II and Leo X-Perugino, Signorelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo-none was so gracious, so accomplished or so beloved as Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino. The Church heaped favor, work and riches upon him. At 25 he was commissioned to do huge murals for the Pope's quarters in the Vatican. He became chief architect of Rome. Princely Cardinals and wealthy bankers sought him out to do their portraits or decorate their villas...