Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lady Baird, who died in 1969, the gallery bought it for the equivalent in cash and tax relief of $1,920,000. It was the second highest price ever paid by the museum for a work of art, topped only by the $2,240,000 paid for Leonardo da Vinci's cartoon of the Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Anne...
...sarai solo," Leonardo da Vinci remarked five hundred years ago, "tu sarai tutto tuo" (If you are alone, you are your own man). Biking, like gliding, is one of the most delightful expressions of this fact. There is nothing secondhand or vicarious about the sense of freedom, which means possessing one's own and unique experiences, that a big bike well ridden confers. Antisocial? Indeed, yes. And being so, a means to sanity. The motorcycle is a charm against the Group...
...polls. In one of the more obscure surveys, U.S. newspaper editors picked the man who they thought was the most admired in history. The winner was Jesus Christ (280 votes). Runners-up: Winston Churchill (175), Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London voted Churchill the Hero of All Time, ahead of Jesus, John F. Kennedy, Admiral Nelson and Joan of Arc. As Most Hated and Feared, the waxwork freaks voted Hitler and Mao Tse-tung...
...face-to-face meetings more and more difficult. "You can't realistically solve the problem by widening streets or banning cars," he says. "You have to adjust, reshuffle things and separate the trucks, cars and people, each on a distinct level. Back in the 16th century, Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans to separate traffic this way. Rockefeller Center tried it in the 1930s." In 1957 Ponte saw his chance to update both. To land a project in downtown Montreal, Zeckendorf had to submit a plan for the surrounding area as well. Included in that plan was Ponte...
That sounded like excitable rhetoric, but in fact Brown's words were hedged. "Impact" has never been a criterion of quality in art and if scale was one, all billboards might be masterpieces. The fact that the Cezanne, next to Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Bend (which cost about $5,000,000) is the costliest new picture in Washington does not mean it can be "put up against" Bellini's Feast of the Gods, Raphael's Alba Madonna, or even the museum's other and better Cezannes. Its interest is mainly historical. Cezannes...