Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...synagogue cantor has given him extra power. He hoisted a total of 804⅓ lbs. for a new world record. The other U.S. squad members seemed so far from shape that the rest of the scheduled matches promised to be Russian pushovers. Bantamweight (class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training time for job hunting, and was worn out. Middle-Heavyweight (198½ Ibs.) Dave Sheppard, the handsome health-food salesman who claims an unofficial world eating championship (five meals daily with snacks in between...
Seurat went about his mission with a thoroughness that Louvre Curator Germain Bazin compares only to Leonardo da Vinci's own scientific preparations. To ready his first painted manifesto, La Grande Jatte, Seurat went daily for six months to the island to sketch and make quick color studies, worked for months in his studio making life studies of the 40 figures he intended to place in his finished canvas. Only after two arduous years did Seurat, then 26, finish the work-thousands of minute dots of paint, some three layers in depth, on a canvas measuring nearly...
From Allen's start it is only a short leap to NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, by Benny Hooper Jr., THE POWER ELITE, by Georgy Malenkov, A CERTAIN SMILE, by Leonardo da Vinci, or THE SUN ALSO RISES, by Aly (MY SON, MY SON! Khan...
...painting (see cut) was given to an ancestor, William Henry Vernon of Newport, R.I., by Marie Antoinette not long before she was beheaded in 1793. It hung until 1833 in Vernon's collection at Newport where it was listed as "A Nun, a finished picture by Leonardo da Vinci." In recent years the Vernon family has kept it in a bank vault in Manhattan...
...Leonardo da Vinci's enduring fame, less than 30 of his paintings (including the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper) have come down to posterity. In the U.S. only two purported Leonardos exist, both of doubtful authenticity.* This week the Detroit Institute of Arts put on display a third painting attributed to Leonardo that has never before been publicly exhibited: The Adoration with Two Angels, presumably done in Leonardo's youth (between 1472 and 1478) while he was still working in Andrea del Verrocchio's studio in Florence...