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...Henry VIII, Erasmus, John Calvin, Rabelais, Machiavelli, he came to the French throne when monarchy meant owning the country. Only 20 when he became king, he found it delightful to be an autocrat. Did he want a château? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned in Madrid and held for a nearly ruinous ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amorous Autocrat | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...Mona Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White House Tunes | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...forest and dozens of other Dali works went on view last week at the Julien Levy Gallery. Among them : Monument to Woman and Child, a great grey whorl that might be wood or weathered rock, in which can be seen ogling men's faces, clutching hands, Napoleon, the Mona Lisa, a pair of buttocks; The Spectre of Sex Appeal, with a little child in a blue sailor suit by a rocky seashore gazing at a gigantic diseased figure propped up by forked sticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Frozen Nightmares | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

FILM ARTISTS WANTED, also cultured ladies and gentlemen to train for film work. - MONA LISA, 71, New Bond Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Agonies | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris was not surprised that "Momo," before reaching Washington, had visited the Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show's latest thing in painted nudity - Miss Mona Leslie who pops up out of a fountain, does a dance and finally plunges into a pool. As a judge of Mona no doubt "Momo" is peer less but Paris, jealous of the safety of her franc on the gold standard, resented the implied opinion of francs and French securities expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Moma & Momo | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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