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...skill with boards and committees and his firm belief in public responsibility. He understood the difference between being a public man and settling for mere celebrity. But the third was, quite simply, his ability to communicate his enthusiasm freshly and directly. At his best, as in his texts on Leonardo and Piero della Francesca, and parts of The Nude and Looking at Pictures, he had a lovely, supple prose style, short on ornament and full of sense, that guided the neophyte to the heart of the work...
...wake of the Sindona and Calvi banking scandals, people are unsurprisingly skeptical of Vatican motives); but much of it comes from art historians of impeccable credentials, like the former mayor of Rome Giulio Carlo Argan, who holds that works like the Belvedere Torso, Caravaggio's Deposition and Leonardo's St. Jerome-all included in the exhibition-should not be exposed to the risks of travel, particularly for a show that has no scholarly purpose. But the Vatican does what it wants to do. It was determined to have an Event. If ever an exhibition was passively dedicated...
...Leonardo da Vinci's Landscapes, Plants and Water Studies (Johnson Reprint Corp.; $4,600; after Dec. 31, $5,500) reproduces 70 sheets of drawings, unbound and printed recto and verso, from the hand and mind of genius. Whether he drew acorns, flowers, an oncoming thunderstorm or doodles, Leonardo worked magic. This project is every bit as magnificent as its price. The drawings come in a large portfolio box, accompanied by a 250-page volume of text and notes; the whole production is partly bound in royal blue Nigerian goatskin. It would be less expensive to jet to Britain...
...conspiracy is not clear. Nor is much known about Antonov himself, beyond the fact that he had worked in Rome for four or five years, and left his family at home in Sofia. His job would have given him easy access to passenger planes at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, freeing him from some of the limitations of immigration and customs controls. According to some reports, he is suspected of having provided Agca with information, money and a hotel room at the time of the shooting, and may even have driven him to St. Peter's Square...
Each egg contained a quote from such eminent philosophers as Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Schweitzer defending the right of animals, the spokesman explained...