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Curious about his quest, I found Seracini through a local Florentine politician who has been acting as the modern-day equivalent of a Renaissance-era public patron for this cutting-edge cultural pursuit. As we stand under the palazzo's vaulted frescoes, Seracini lures me into his obsessive world, enumerating the historical and technical evidence that has accumulated as part of the centuries-old search for the lost mural. I can't help thinking of Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, and, indeed, Seracini is the only real-life character mentioned in the book...
Seracini may be serious about his task, but he clearly relishes the spice of the mystery. After we stand together for 20 minutes in the center of the sprawling sala, Seracini looks at me with a twinkle in his eye. "I know I haven't told you where it is yet," he says. He then indicates a 250-sq.-ft. area on the eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural...
...Harvard heavyweights and former treasury secretaries told Congress’s Joint Economic Committee yesterday that the new Democratic majority must take a stand in favor of free trade. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers and current Harvard Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60, both Democrats who served in President Clinton’s cabinet, spoke to the committee at its first meeting under the new Congress. They delved into a range of economic issues, including income inequality and middle class discontent. Though both are members of the same party as the committee’s majority...
...aversion of the Harvard student to what we call country music. As an aesthete, I can think of nothing more agreeable than the honeyed strains of “She’s Got It All,” off Kenny Chesney’s 1997 gem, I Will Stand. I like his earlier stuff. As such, it pains me when perusing the Facebook profiles of my classmates, I so often encounter some permutation of the following phrase: “ill listen to nething, cept country...
Second, why must you insist on sinking your horrid little fangs into the hand that feeds you? Country is the soundtrack of America—at least for the proud 32 percent of us who stand behind our President. I still use Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” to drown out Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) when watching the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on C-SPAN. When Mr. Keith growls, “We’ll put a boot up your...