... paint, in hopes of replacing the matte surface of fresco (pigment applied ... to wonder: Michelangelo's versatility in passing from poetry to painting to sculpture ...
... Leonardo was commissioned in 1495 to do the painting, but his services were much in ... quickly, so he didn't take the time to paint in true fresco style paint ...
The Titan of Titans The New York Review of Books - USA
One of the mysteries of the modern world is the intense personal sympathy many people seem to have for the stingy, crabbed, resentful Florentine sculptor whose real fame resides in only a handful of works: the Pieta in St. Peter's, the David in Florence, the Moses in Rome's Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Last Judgment, and a series of unfinished Captives in Florence and the Louvre. A handful of works it may be, but that handful is surely as illustrious as any in the history of Western art, and we feel so close to their maker that we address him freely by his first name: Michelangelo.
Fine art of Code-breaking
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
MILAN, ITALY Celeste Bruni jabs a finger stiffened with contempt toward the wall and says "That is NOT Mary Magdalene! Her you will find in the book, not on the wall." The book to which the feisty guide refers with such scorn is, of course, The Da Vinci Code. And on the wall is The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.
Briefly, author Dan Brown's best-selling mystery-cum-expose contends that Leonardo was a member of a secret society which was the guardian of a terrible secret: that the Holy Grail was not a cup, but a woman, Mary Magdalene, who was the wife of Jesus. Furthermore, the couple had children, who became rulers of France and whose descendants exist to this day. The Catholic Church, jealous of its privileged position, has suppressed this secret for 2,000 years with murderous tenacity.
