Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leonardo da Vinci, a Psychosexual Study of Infantile Reminiscence...
DRAMATIS PERSONAE - Arthur Sy-mons-Bobbs, Merrill ($2.00). A book of essays on such subjects as Conrad, Emily Bronte, the Decadent Movement in Literature, On French and English Fiction, Leonardo da Vinci, that are distinguished more by a mild charm of manner than by any signs of hard thinking or remarkable critical skill...
...smile made Da Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...smile made Da Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...that system and ordering of daily life that is in truth the most immediate concern of the more human letters--the Litterae Humaniores of the Scots Universities. "The Achievement of Greece" is, in fact, a study in the humanities. We cannot ask every man to be a Leonardo da Vinci...