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...might that man be? President Humberto Castello Branco insists that he will not run. There is another soldier who is almost certain to be the candidate of the government's new "Party of the Revolution." He is Gen eral Artur da Costa e Silva, 63, Brazil's War Minister and Castello Branco's strong right arm in the barracks. Two men could hardly be more different in personality. Costa e Silva is a soldier's soldier, as bluff and hearty among his officers as Castello Branco is quiet and intense. Yet they work together as closely...
Beauty in a Wart. Diirer was 23 when he made his first of several trips to Italy. There he saw the orderly beauties of Greco-Roman antiquity, heightened through the Renaissance eyes of Mantegna and Da Vinci. Their cool confidence in man vied with his apocalyptic Gothic attitudes. He never got over all of them, recorded a nightmare in 1525: "Many big waters fell from the firmament, with great violence and with enormous noise, and drowned the whole land." But he asserted the new idea that the visible world was the true subject...
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hip pie, the parent and the child. Henry Fon da, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm...
...Renaissance masters. Back in 1920, Art Dealer Edward Fowles had thought so when he purchased it in Rome for upward of $40,000. Considered to be the original for a marble in the Bargello museum, the bust was then attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio or possibly his pupil, Leonardo da Vinci, by the Bargello's director and the late connoisseur Wilhelm von Bode...
...will subject it to a series of exhaustive tests, but even before the results are in, Met Curator of Western European Art John G. Phillips predicts that it will prove to be the original from which the Bargello bust was made. Furthermore, he believes that it is by Leonardo da Vinci...