Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heaven only knows how many women have despairingly practiced the Mona Lisa smile since Leonardo da Vinci painted her around 1505. And what was she smiling about anyway? Sixteen years ago Tiffany...
Cupids for Parade. For victory pageants, knights went all out for display, borrowing the services of such artists as Holbein, Dtirer. Leonardo da Vinci and Cellini for helmet designs and devices that were etched, gilded, embossed and damascened on the steel plate. The best Florentine painters of the day were called on to decorate ceremonial shields and banners. So dazzling were the results that one of Milan's great armorers, Tomaso Missaglia, was not only knighted but exempted from all taxes as well. Such splendid casques as Milan's other great armorer, Philip de Negroli, made for France...
...head, copy and learn by heart the heads of Da Vinci; for the body, Michelangelo and Durer; for everything, Rubens." Having learned from art, Marsh turned to life: "Go out into the streets, stare at the people. Go into the subway. Stare at the people. Stare, stare, keep on staring...
...dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over the corpse. Embalmers, whose craft the book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There were setbacks, of course. One Richard Hull, of Scotland, in accordance with a notion that on Judgment Day the world will be tipped the other way round, had himself buried upside...
Clearing the Name. The names of Amerigo's contemporaries in Florence read like a glory roll: Lorenzo de' Medici, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci. Good Florentine that he was, he had no trouble mixing an interest in art and ideas with the art of business. While he was in Seville, Spain, as an agent for Florentine interests, he came to know Columbus and King Ferdinand, who gave him the chance to go on voyages that resulted in the first useful maps of the New World's continental coastline...