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...spends most of his time at sea, mother spends most of hers smoking opium, so Michel soon learns to look after himself. He grows into a talented pianist and crooner -but so indifferent to the life of post-World War I that he scarcely bothers to sing for his supper. Women-princesses, chambermaids, davies, chorines-are all bowled over by Michel's fascinating indifference. At 25, Michel is the western world's most bored Casanova, married to an aging American moneybag and hopelessly in love with a frigid Swede...
...world's best-known painting, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, is ruined, perhaps irreparably. That was the sad news from Italy last week...
...Vinci painted the jfresco, was damp to start with. To make matters worse, Da Vinci, the eternal experimenter, invented special tempera pigments for the fresco, and they proved to be less durable than those then commonly in use. Even in Da Vinci's own lifetime the Last Supper had begun to fade, and as early as 1556 Art Historian Vasari complained that it had become "a muddle of blots...
Blurred Apostles. Until World War II science and a succession of restorers managed to preserve a reasonable facsimile of the Last Supper for each new generation of art lovers. In August 1943, Allied bombs fell near the refectory. Two walls and part of a third came tumbling down. The fourth wall, with Da Vinci's masterpiece, protected by layers of sandbags, still stood...
Then, for the next two years, no one took any more trouble to save the Last Supper, which was left exposed to rain, wind and sun. When the last of the sandbags was removed in the summer of 1945, an Allied Commission reported that the painting was in good condition. Says associate director of the Worcester (Mass.) Museum Perry Cott (who, as a member of the commission, ordered the sandbags removed): "The Last Supper may be getting worse and it surely isn't getting any better. It is a miracle that it was saved...