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...after the foal arrived, lop-eared Leonardo Cedano, 30, a Calero stablehand, became morose. Standing outside a public bar, he bellowed: "People are saying that the baby mule born yesterday is my son." Then he popped a skyrocket into his mouth, touched a lighted cigaret to the fuse. A moment later it exploded. His face and mouth were horribly mutilated. Within half an hour he died...
...clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies. In the Italian Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus in the womb...
...past 15 years we have been looking at these crazy quilt paintings and wondering what you have to do to appreciate them. Does International Correspondence School have a course in interpretation? And just how did your reporter arrive at the conclusion that Leonardo da Vinci would have smacked his chops at the selection? The great Italian gave us paintings which could be appreciated by the carriage trade and the stevedores alike...
Neither hot, arty nor unshorn, TIME holds no brief for crazy quilt paintings but stands by its estimate of Carnegie Prizewinner Georges Braque's The Yellow Cloth as a successful abstraction, for reasons given in its report on the Carnegie show (TIME, Oct. 25). Chances are that Leonardo da Vinci would shrug, smile, disagree with Reader Sullivan...
...Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening of the 35th annual Carnegie International Exhibition, biggest competitive show of contemporary paintings in the world; If Leonardo da Vinci were given one evening of life each year to study the painting of his successors, chances are that the great Florentine experimenter, well acquainted by now with "abstractions," would have shrugged, smiled, agreed last week with the Carnegie jury which unanimously awarded first prize ($1,000) to Georges Braque...