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Subtlety & Superiority. One critic who saw nothing strange about the Mono, Lisa was the 16th century's Giorgio Vasari, who praised the painting for its naturalism. "In this head," Vasari wrote, "every peculiarity that could be depicted by the utmost subtlety of the pencil has been faithfully reproduced . . . Mona Lisa was exceedingly beautiful, and while Leonardo was painting her portrait, he took the precaution of keeping someone constantly near her, to ... amuse her, to the end that she might continue cheerful...
...science-minded 20th century, Sigmund Freud applied psychoanalytical guesswork to the problem. He decided that the Mona Lisa was actually an idealization of Leonardo's own mother...
Stars in the Air (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Deep Waters, with William Lundigan, Mona Freeman...
...standards generally used in judging movies whose purpose is to argue a social moral, Flesh and Fury is particularly unstimulating. The symbols are painfully obvious: Jan Sterling, as the money-sucking girl friend, represents all who are callous and indifferent towards the naturally afflicted; Mona Freeman, as a reporter and a member of a wealthy family, represents the sympathetic and the understanding. These two struggle insipidly for Callan's love, the outcome never in doubt. Virtue at length triumphs, not through its own strength, but through the machinations of the plot...
...grand mural depicting the Battle of Anghiari was completely lost because an experimental lacquer, one of Leonardo's latest notions, dissolved. The Last Supper early began to fade, partly because Leonardo chose to use an experimental tempera. Of all his paintings, only two or three, including the Mona Lisa, survive relatively unimpaired...