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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leonardo da Vinci's enduring fame, less than 30 of his paintings (including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper) have come down to posterity. In the U.S. only two purported Leonardos exist, both of doubtful authenticity.* This week the Detroit Institute of Arts put on display a third painting attributed to Leonardo that has never before been publicly exhibited: The Adoration with Two Angels, presumably done in Leonardo's youth (between 1472 and 1478) while he was still working in Andrea del Verrocchio's studio in Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Leonardo? | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Mimi Benzell, 33, bubbling former Metropolitan Opera soprano turned supper club and TV singer, and Concert Manager Walter A. Gould: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Jennifer Alicia. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...round, has been closed for eight years while rain pours through gaps in the roof. The sign on the barred door reads: Attenti alle frane (Watch out for falling stones). ¶ In Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie (which houses Leonardo da Vinci's recently restored Last Supper) also has a fine cloister with Bramante frescoes, largely ignored and badly damaged by water seeping through walls and ceiling. ¶ In Florence's Santa Croce, Italy's greatest Franciscan church, rain falls through the battered roof of the Bardi chapel, forms pools on the cracking floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Crumbling Museum | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Although not every student in the house writes a novel, this easy interplay between tutor and student, carried on over a Central Kitchen cup of coffee, is found at every meal, and everywhere tutors and students meet. At the supper table, at the billiards table, as well as at the office table, tutor-student relationships are close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Close Student - Faculty Relationship, Flexible Tradition at Kirkland | 3/22/1957 | See Source »

...Hartford, Conn., accused of slapping his wife and locking her up, Norman Tamkin told the judge she had brought it on herself by feeding him a heat-and-serve TV supper, got a rebuttal from Mrs. Tamkin: "He lost the food money playing cards . . . Why, for the first three months of our marriage we didn't even have television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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