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...Milan last year, Art Critic Lionello Venturi paused before The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, famed masterpiece of 17th century Michelangelo da Caravaggio. Venturi had seen the painting often before in Rome's dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
...that Caravaggio had unmistakably started two earlier versions of his famous painting on the same canvas, and covered them over. The experts isolated parts of ten figures, deduced which of them belonged to each version, and filled them out in painstaking sketches. In a pamphlet published last week, Critic Venturi reported the findings...
...easy grace and warm understanding of the hardships in everyday life. Wrote Virgilio Guzzi in Il Tempo: "At times melancholy, at times naive, the artist pictures the life of the poor ... in such a way as to give us a poetic image." Added Italy's top critic, Lionello Venturi: "I think she will become a notable painter...
Rome's art scholars greeted Ferri's announcement with deep skepticism. "Every painter," snorted Expert Lionello Venturi, "shows something of his own appearance in his paintings...
...either side of the stripped-down fuselage of a Taylor Cub, he fastened stubby wings curved into a smooth semicircle -the bottom halves of two 6-ft.-wide Venturi tubes. Toward the back of each wing he mounted an engine, its propeller tips just clearing the curve of the trailing edge. If his calculations were correct, when the spinning props sucked air through the U-shaped channels, Custer's plane would fly-like that West Virginia barn roof a quarter-century before...