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Died. Dmitri Merejkowski, 76, Russian historical novelist, biographer (The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci), Christian mystic; in Paris...
...Leonardo da Vinci seems first to have noticed that widths of tree rings vary in wet and dry years, but there is a big gap between his discovery and a history of tree rings that chronicles Midwest weather as far back as 1300 A.D.-a study released this week by Anthropologist Florence May Hawley of the University of Chicago...
...show's 25 oils and 19 lithographs, a large number showed concentration camps, corpse-strewn battlefields, bayonetings, bombed civilians, etc. Bill Gropper gets his scenes of carnage partly out of his round head, partly from reading papers. Says he: "I have never seen war, but did Leonardo ever see the Last Supper...
...story of early medieval Europe was enacted," he claims, forgetting that both John Ruskin and Oswald Spengler made the point long ago. The Renaissance was the product of nasty weather. Rain, cold, floods, plagues, famines, sunspots flourished in the 14th Century. Result: Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medicis. Confessed Leonardo da Vinci: "All the genius that I have comes from the air [climate] of my native province." When the weather cleared, Italian genius dozed off again in the sunshine...
...plastilene and hairpins, from which he painted his oily-looking scene of sailors refusing to board ship. Asked about it, Painter Benton said it was nothing new, that he had been painting all his pictures from plastilene casts for the past 21 years, that he learned the trick from Leonardo da Vinci...