Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burning eyes. Last week an Italian artist and scholar by the name of Lorenzo Ferri insisted that he had found a second. The face of the Apostle Thaddeus, he said, second from the right in Leonardo's famed Last Supper* is none other than that of the painter himself...
...resemblance between Leonardo and the apostle first struck Ferri in 1937, when he painted a reproduction of the Last Supper for a Franciscan refectory in Bengasi, Libya. Later, he pored over portraits of Leonardo by contemporary artists, studied descriptions, drew up charts detailing the painter's hair, beard, nose, eyes, mouth and cheekbones. He photographed the original to compress and sharpen the faded outlines, then worked in the features, adding light and shadow. After years of work, Ferri has a 328-page illustrated manuscript crammed with his notes and impressions. One impression: the Apostle Thaddeus' whole manner...
Rome's art scholars greeted Ferri's announcement with deep skepticism. "Every painter," snorted Expert Lionello Venturi, "shows something of his own appearance in his paintings...
...Cummings '15, noted American poet and painter, has been appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for next year, the University announced recently...
...Among Morris' direct descendants is great-grandson Gouverneur Morris, novelist and short-story writer. Newbold Morris, recently fired as Harry Truman's special corruption hunter, is a great-great-great-nephew, as is his brother, George L. K. Morris, "concretionist" painter and a onetime editor and angel of the Partisan Review...