Word: vinci
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...like you've stepped into the famous da Vinci painting: a beaming Jesus presides over the meal from the middle of the table, with Judas the traitor seated on his left and faithful Simon (boyish good looks and all) seated on his right. But this is no Italian basilica--this is the Currier dining hall, and Jesus (Jeffery E. Fowler '01) is complaining about the service, Judas (Ryan P. Shrime '00) is cracking off-color jokes, and one of the apostles (but not Simon, played by Stefan H. Atkinson '03) is still nursing a hangover. Grab some of His body...
...have an 8-ft. bronze Leonardo da Vinci horse in Grand Rapids, Mich. [Letters, Oct. 18], but we also have a 24-ft. version, just like the Leonardo horse in Milan, Italy. In fact, ours is not even a copy. It was cast at the same time as the Milan horse; all the parts of the two statues are interchangeable. And thanks to philanthropist Fred Meijer, our horse provides a hands-on art experience for those who visit--art you can walk right up to and touch (not mounted on a pedestal like the one in Milan...
...computer as an empowering cultural force that can help heal a rift between art and technology that's as old as art and technology themselves. For his '60s-era peers, high tech meant the cold, gray establishment that they were revolting against. Jobs knew better. "Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist," he says. "Michelangelo knew how to cut stone at the quarry. Edwin Land at Polaroid once said, 'I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science,' and I've never forgotten that...
FARM CHARM A statue designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the 1590s but not cast until this decade was erected in Milan last week, left. Meanwhile, Cow Up a Tree, by John Kelly, mooooved into Paris...
...commerce debate isn't a new one--Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is said to be the most reproduced painting in history--but the corporate approach of Media Arts brings the argument to a new level. "I have an N.C. Wyeth hanging in my office that was a tire ad in 1916," says Scott Usher, president of Greenwich Workshop, a publisher in Shelton, Conn., "and very few art critics are going to say Wyeth was just an illustrator." Norman Rockwell battled the same demon, and Andy Warhol took heat for suggesting it was O.K. to have assistants do some...