Word: solario
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Scraping one tiny area at a time, Pelliccioli started his monumental job on the 13¼-by-29¼-ft.surface almost two years ago. His main guide was a faithful copy of the Last Supper painted by a follower named Andrea Solario in 1520, only 22 years after Leonardo had finished the mural. Solario's copy was destroyed during World War II, but Pelliccioli has a photograph of it and a vivid memory. First he took minute samplings of the surface where past restorers had painted on overlapping layers, then painstakingly scraped down to the original, finally swabbed over...
...Four thousand pounds," said a quiet, mellow voice, the voice of His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, the Aga Khan III. At once the buzz of Christie's quieted. The Aga Khan had recently offered ?100,000 ($486,000) for Solario, famed racehorse (TIME, June 21). He could bid up to almost any sum for the diamond "Golden Dawn" if he really wanted it. Perhaps a record in diamond bidding loomed...
...Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, the Aga Khan III, offered £100,000 last week to Sir John Rutherford for his colt Solario ?was refused...
...highest price ever actually paid for a race horse was $265,000, for which sum August Belmont parted with Tracery to Señor Unzue. Though Sir John Rutherford paid only £5,000 for Solario, he may well reap £30,000 a year by offering him at stud...