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...leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel at the frescoes of Titian and Tintoretto, the sculpture of Rizzo and Verocchio, and the majestic bell towers and loggia of Buon and Sansovino...
With 163 drawings, it is the biggest Leonardo show ever, and has already drawn 36,000 visitors. Chronologically, the drawings run from studies of lilies done in 1478, when Leonardo was an apprentice in Verocchio's Florentine workshop, to the coarse drawings probably done after 1516, when he had moved to France and, in his 60s, had suffered a paralysis of his working arm. Most important, the exhibition encompasses the extraordinary diversity of Leonardo's interests and achievements. Armaments, navigation, map making, mathematics, anatomy, botany, astronomy-his investigations into all of them are graphically annotated. The continual restlessness...
...Pollaviolo and Verocchio," Professor Edgell. Fogg Small Lecture Room...
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