Word: leonardos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Kingdom in common indignation. The earl wrote in his capacity as chairman of the National Art-Collections Fund-a body founded 59 years ago expressly to protect Britain's treasures from falling into the hands of acquisitive American millionaires. Now the fund was out to protect Leonardo's exquisite drawing of the Virgin and child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, which its owner, the Royal Academy, intended to sell at auction to get itself out of the red. The fund had decided to launch a public appeal "to secure this incomparable treasure...
...York to the Caribbean. Grace Lines this week launched its sleek new 14,000-ton Santa Magdalena, which will carry cargo and 127 passengers between New York and west coast ports in South America. So profitable is the cruise business in fact that even big transatlantic liners like the Leonardo da Vinci and the United States are being diverted for special vacation cruises during the winter season, and the French Line is "considering" cruises for the France...
...Vinci Complex. Like Marinotti-who paints passable landscapes under the name "Francesco Torri"-many a North Italian businessman takes as his personal hero that versatile Renaissance genius, Leonardo da Vinci, and like Da Vinci is not deterred from any enterprise by lack of experience. A prime example is Count Gaetano Marzotto, 67, whose family-owned Marzotto Textile is Italy's biggest wool spinner and producer of readymade clothes. Several years ago, enraged by an all-night bout with bedbugs in a Sicilian hotel, Marzotto set out to build his own hotels in Italy's remote places. Clean, simple...
...whole work, the old masters are also present, for unlike Vlaminck, Derain spent hours copying in the Louvre. "I do not innovate," he explained. "I transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into a guitar, a bicycle wheel, a pre-Columbian monster. The handwriting has replaced style. It has devoured the ball...
Since he is painter, sculptor, writer, and a poet of sorts as well, his colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even...