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...Virginio DeMartin in his Mono, Lisa in Paradise Dress had stripped Leonardo's inscrutable model down to a garish French postcard, not nude but naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independents | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...some that were consequent upon the fact that Cardinal Peter Innocent, not having nephews like the other cardinals and the chaste Pope, happened in Venice upon a glassblower and a chevalier who, for sufficient sequins, fashioned for him a nephew of finespun glass. This manikin, though at once christened Virginio, was human enough to fall in love with spirited little Rosalba Berni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fragile Conceit | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

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