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...deals where the old masters and $500,000 are involved. The sale was about to be consummated, certificates of authenticity, vouchers, expert testimonies and all attached to the work, when Sir Joseph gave out an interview denouncing the picture as a "copy. . . . The certificates accompanying it are worthless. . . . Leonardo never copies his works...
...statement that Leonardo da Vinci never copied his own works is hard to reconcile with critics' assertions that Scotland Yard experts have declared the fingerprints on various da Vinci replicas to be identical with those on originals; that two major continental galleries- the Louvre of Paris, the Prado in Madrid-have simultaneously exhibited a Mona Lisa. Suit for libel was entered against Sir Joseph...
...synthesis of even the major findings of modern knowledge could be caught in a two-year curriculum if we continue to teach entirely in terms of the subjects and departments that are today the basis of instruction, unless each subject were to be taught by a polymath like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Adam Smith, or Thomas Henry Buckle. It may be there-fore, that we shall find that the only way we can manage to induct students into a general understanding of their civilization will be to teach during these two "general" years in terms of situations rather than subjects...
...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
That strange character of the early Renaissance whose versatility rivals that of Leonardo, Leone Battista Alberti, is to be the subject of Professor Edgell's lecture at noon today in Robinson Hall to his students and vagabonds in Fine Arts 7a. Alberti was one of the foremost organists of his day: he wrote Latin verses with ease and skill: his Della Statua is one of the earliest critical works on sculpture, as is his De Pictura on the art of painting. It is his fame as an architect, however, that has best survived, and it is of this phase...