Hints and tips:
...If you can’t own the “Mona Lisa”, you could bid for a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting....
...Far more modest, but no less exciting an opportunity, is the display of the 29 Italian Renaissance drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries belonging to the Beaux-Arts de Paris (to April 19)....
...Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...Without the support of the Medici family of bankers of the 14th and 15th centuries, there is a chance we would not have had the art of Michelangelo, Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci....
...Who Savills, savills.com, tel: +44 20 7016 3740 Letter in response to this report Joe Bradley couldn’t have afforded his tiny bedsit in Rome today / From Susan L Serbin...
...Johnson subsequently acquired three more trophy Italian Renaissance drawings: a Botticelli and two drapery studies traditionally attributed to Leonardo da Vinci....
...For further description of the furore in the local market, see Susan Moore’s article....
...The Eisenhower family, led by his granddaughter Susan, have been publicly opposed to the Gehry proposal since last year....
...It launches with a compelling juxtaposition of two of the earliest and most celebrated sheets in the collection, by Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi....
...Now grown up, Garner’s hero, Colin, works at Jodrell Bank as an astronomer and Susan has vanished, possibly living in the Pleiades....
...The current record price for an Old Master drawing offered at auction is £8.1m, realised for Michelangelo’s “The Risen Christ”, sold in 2000, and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Horse and Rider”, also sold at Christie...
...The actress’s biographer, Susan Hayward, went so far as to call the triangular place the “sex” of Paris. Pétanque is still played by old men on a gravelly patch....
...Aftra, meanwhile, claims the support of Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon and Kevin Spacey. SAG was not available for comment on Wednesday....
...Then I worked for a woman named Susan Mercandetti who was the producer at Nightline with Ted Koppel [on ABC]. Then I represented a guy who was the central American correspondent at NBC....
...Rosheim, in this beautifully illustrated volume, explores their feasibility and traces da Vinci’s legacy among modern robot makers....
...Da Vinci himself is an Italian-Canadian coroner....
...Although average print-runs for local authors do not exceed 2,000 copies, Roy Jenkins’ biography of Churchill has sold 18,000, and The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, has sold 50,000 so far....
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