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Women enchanted the brush of Botticelli. Da Vinci is famous for one female smile, Whistler for his mother. Degas captured girlishness from gawky grace to the glamorous fall from it. "So why is it unusual that I paint women?" asks Willem de Kooning, at 60 the foremost U.S. artist still working vigorously in the abstract expressionist idiom...
...that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind with a single fresh conception...
...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I, Leonardo da Vinci," a special documentary with Fredric March speaking for Leonardo. Color...
...explained to the artist that, since those he photographs are his hosts, it was a sort of a guest book in reverse. Duchamp whipped out a pen and, writing backwards, jotted down his signature in a perfect mirror image. For what it is worth, this was also Leonardo da Vinci's favorite device, in his notebooks, for keeping his secrets to himself...
From such a splendid beginning, the British royal collection came to fill six castles and grow into the most valuable private collection in the world. From its 50 Canalettos to its 200 Da Vinci draw ings, the crown's choice is still an unnationalized treasure. The bulk, of which some 172 works are now on public view in Buckingham Palace's Queen's Gallery, bespeaks, above all, the influence of the Italian Renaissance...