Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonardo da Vinci, the man, artist and military engineer" is the subject chosen for his lecture by John W. Lieb, vice-president of the New York Edison Company and president of the Electrical Testing Laboratories. He will speak at 8 o'clock this evening at the Fogg Art Museum under the auspices of the University Engineering Society. Mr. Lieb has a very representative collection of slides pertaining to the works and replicas of Leonardo da Vinci with which he will illustrate his lecture...
John W. Lieb will speak at the Fogg Art Museum Thursday at 8 o'clock on "Leonardo da Vinci", with special reference to him as a man, an artist and as a military engineer. He will illustrate his lecture with many representative slides of his works and also of some of the modern replicas, showing the differences between the originals and those of imitators who lacked the genius of the great master. Mr. Lieb, although essentially an electrical engineer, has made an extensive study of Leonardo and his period. He comes to the University at the invitation of the University...
...words are true to this extent: none of our great painters (even those who stay at home) have done for America what Rembrandt did for Holland; Da Vinci, for Italy; Hiroshige, for Japan; Dürer, for Germany...
Sandro Botticelli. The play opens like a fancy dress ball. On the minute stage of the Provincetown Theatre are assembled people dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel...
...ever since he was created. In pagan mythology it was left to the gods to sail through space, and their soaring was looked upon with awe. Later the Valkyrie took up the fashion where Mercury left off, and still the people looked on it with awe. Finally Leonardo da Vinci, a mortal, decided that men could fly as well as gods and birds. To his endeavors people turned a deaf ear and a superstitious frame of mind, alternately calling him god and devil. He was classed with the witches and their broomstick flying machines. After his failure men gave...