Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps ever been more brilliant, more permiated with life and power than the Italian Renaissance, and no man among all the great men of the time, was more gifted than Leonardo da Vinci...
...Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter and master of the fine arts. Much of his time and thought was spent in the designing of projects in mechanics, hydraulics, military engineering in feeling his way along the thread of experimental study in every branch of theoretical and applied scence known...
...sale in London: two Rembrandts, one a landscape at ?1,550, one a portrait of Shah Jehan, one-time Emperor of Hindustan at ?680. Art-man Sir Joseph Duveen (TIME, July 5) snatched them, as is his habit. Two drawings by Da Vinci were taken by Thomas Agnew and Sons...
...statement that Leonardo da Vinci never copied his own works is hard to reconcile with critics' assertions that Scotland Yard experts have declared the fingerprints on various da Vinci replicas to be identical with those on originals; that two major continental galleries- the Louvre of Paris, the Prado in Madrid-have simultaneously exhibited a Mona Lisa. Suit for libel was entered against Sir Joseph...
...even the major findings of modern knowledge could be caught in a two-year curriculum if we continue to teach entirely in terms of the subjects and departments that are today the basis of instruction, unless each subject were to be taught by a polymath like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Adam Smith, or Thomas Henry Buckle. It may be there-fore, that we shall find that the only way we can manage to induct students into a general understanding of their civilization will be to teach during these two "general" years in terms of situations rather than subjects...