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...scientific aids--the microscope, X-rays, ultra-violet light--in the attribution of authorship and in the detection of forgeries. Error and fraud are bogeys not always easy to exorcise, and even genuine doubt is disturbing, as Mr. Laurie shows in his discussion of "La Belle Ferronniere," by Leonardo da Vinci. There were two contenders for genuineness, one in the Louvre (the more familiar) and the other in the Hahn collection. A trial took place in New York, but the jury disagreed. Mr. Laurie's own deposition, offered now, after a microscopic examination of both, is that the Louvre picture...
Titian made no pretense at the universal genius of such men as Michael Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci. He lacked entirely the religious instinct of a Giotto or El Greco. He worshipped fine food, rich brocades and women's bodies, alternated between harlots, duchesses and his daughter Lavinia for his models. Still painting at the age of 90. his trembling hands and failing eyes produced the technique that led to French Impressionism. The bargaining instinct never left him. Wanting to be buried in the swank Church of the Frari, he offered to swap the monks a new Pieta...
...Wickham over his omissions, which were necessary if the book was not to become fat like the volumes of van Marle. You will find Titian's "Charles V," and you will rejoice if you like that portrait; you will also find Botticelli's "Venus," Raphael's "Julius II," and Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," but not Leonardo's "Mona Lisa," which is of course so popular a selection that it is both proper and fair for its place to be taken by a nude like Titian's "Danae," which is often omitted out of deference to "the non-Conformist...
Better than all the speeches, flag waving and reviews which have marked the eleventh anniversary of Fascism in Italy, the trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...
...Though commonly called "The Armorer's Daughter," Ferronnière actually refers to the fillet worn around the lady's head. Since 1925 when the painting was exhaustively examined, Louvre authorities have never claimed that their Belle, was an original Leonardo. Wrote Curator Gaston Rouchés: "That does not make much difference when one does not take the commercial view. The important thing is that the picture is beautiful...