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Well, the Mona Lisa is here after an enormous amount of hullabaloo [TIME...
...this portrait was picked out of all the masterpieces in European museums is beyond me. The Mona Lisa is a fine portrait by a great master, but there are a thousand other great works of art in the Louvre and other European museums, in addition to those we have in the U.S. Whether Leonardo thought all the things that have been written about the Mona Lisa as he painted the portrait is open to question. As a matter of fact, he was equally great as an engineer and inventor, and to my mind by no means the greatest master...
...short, les works: a delicate jole gras from Landes, a filet de boeuf Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed by a superb Dom Perignon 1955. The Ambassador toasted President Kennedy. President Kennedy toasted President De Gaulle. John Walker toasted the Mona Lisa...
...Malraux came a graceful and civilized tribute. "Here, then," said he, "is the most famous painting in the world. Mysterious glory, which does not derive from genius alone. Other illustrious portraits can be compared to this one. But every year a few poor deluded women think they are Mona Lisa, yet not one ever thinks she is a figure by Raphael, by Titian or by Rembrandt . . . There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. They are real, though exaggerated. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day at Arromanches...
...Eternal Feminine. With that, the historic meeting ended and everyone departed, leaving the Mona Lisa with Secret Service men and a pair of Marine guards. Next day the gallery doors opened to a rush of citizens eager to see the great painting. Soon, from Winston-Salem, N.C., came 36 art lovers who had chartered a plane to Washington and had a representation of the Mona Lisa painted on the fuselage. In Memphis and French Camp, Miss., in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in New Orleans and New London, Conn., other people made plans for pilgrimages...