Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost nothing is known of Luini beyond the fact that he painted a great deal, and died in 1532. He may once have studied with Leonardo da Vinci, for though his drawing is less acute than Leonardo's, it has the same sinuous elegance-like a strand of hair afloat on the wind. But unlike Leonardo, he never painted a monster or a mask of rage or caught a tempest in his brush. Luini was limited and narrow, but like a narrow window standing open...
...little pot of sweet jelly that is Mr. Polly to the complete Meccano set for the mind that is in The First Men on the Moon. . . . One had, in actual fact, the luck to be young just as the most bubbling creative mind . . . since the days of Leonardo da Vinci was showing its form...
...Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up tanks in the 16th Century. Wrote the painter of The Last Supper: "These take the place of elephants. . . . One may hold bellows in them to spread terror among the horses of the enemy, and one may put carabiniers in them to break up every company...
...months, Italy's art experts had debated how to preserve Da Vinci's masterpiece, the Last Supper, which Allied bombings exposed to the weather after it had already faded and blistered through the years (TIME, Dec. 9). Last week, an Italian Government Advisory Commission came up with a tricky solution: they would build an air-conditioned frame around...
...neighbor to eternity. There was the ancient land which had seen the works of Roman reason and Christian faith. There was the echo-petrified and arrested in time-of the world's greatest spirits, which made even simple 20th Century peasants somehow contemporary and kin to Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Yet a band of conspirators, whose faith was a tenth as old as the simple stone cross in a village church, could capture these works and values-capture the very proofs that man, forever stained by blood and mud, could nevertheless be humble, free and great...