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Italy's great exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci material at Milan this summer (TIME, May 29) put a wild thought in the head of a visitor named Carlo Noya. Signor Noya went home to the coastal town of Savona. He had an old picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last...
...foremost modern authority on Leonardo da Vinci. Fortnight ago in London and Manhattan appeared the full harvest gathered from Subaltern Clark's wide province: a fresh appraisal of Leonardo* and his growth as an artist, based on evidence uncovered in the drawings. As truly as the new Madonna in Milan, it constitutes a rediscovery of Leonardo...
...downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days might be numbered. Italy's problem is to check a military invasion at its outset -west of these cities...
...summer of 1939 finds Benito Mussolini less liked and more openly criticized than for years past. Little jokes, about the German "invasion" of Italy, are beginning to circulate quietly. Anti-Mussolini posters have appeared (briefly) in Milan and Turin. Viva Hitler legends, painted on all the houses along the railway route taken by the Führer on his trip to Rome last year, have been unanimously painted over. There is a dour expression on Italian faces as they watch the heavy-booted Nazi chiefs who now are seen all over the Italian landscape. Crown Prince Umberto, supposed...
...example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their collections. New York, San Francisco, Milan and Brescia, Italy are currently exhibiting temporary loans of Kress...