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...Rogier Bos, speaking for the expert body that advised the minister on the issue, agrees. "If these consumers switch back to LSD, public health will suffer." The synthetic hallucinogen, which has been banned since 1966, is usually sold as a piece of impregnated paper, and thus easier to hide and trade than the bulky mushrooms...
Francesca Rogier teaches the course from 9 a.m. to noon in the room...
...America. The National Gallery had determined that it needed only six crates to hold the most important items. The first scheduled to be rescued: Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci. Other works include paintings by Jan Vermeer, a postcard-size depiction of St. George and the Dragon by Rogier van der Weyden, and Raphael's Alba Madonna. Initially, plans called for the paintings to be taken to Mount Weather and hung on the walls there, arranged not by artist or period but by the size of the canvas. Curators were worried, however, that the site's humidity would destroy...
...Flemish treasures; a splendid array of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings from Italy and northern Europe. Among the drawings- which, at the time of Lehman's death, was one of the greatest collections in private hands in the world - are such rarities as two highly finished studies by Rogier van der Weyden, a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci and Dürer's famous self-portrait...
...With your article on the discovery of a painting by Rogier van der Weyden [April 5] you have a reproduction of a portrait with the title "St. Ivo of Chartres." There seems to be some confusion here. France's Ivo (Yves de Chartres) wrote collections of canon law, but it was St. Yves of Brittany who was the patron saint of lawyers and is renowned for his defense of the poor and for free legal aid to the peasants. He was Yves (sometimes Ives or, in Latin, Ivo) Helory, who was born in 1253 on his father...