{"id":3641,"date":"2012-11-02T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T00:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/leo-painted-a-wall\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T17:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T00:33:01","slug":"leo-painted-a-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/02\/leo-painted-a-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Painted A Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Revisiting a Famous Meal, Soup to Nuts<\/h1>\n

Ross King\u2019s \u2018Leonardo and \u201cThe Last Supper\u201d\u00a0\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

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Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy\/The Bridgeman Art Library\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By\u00a0MICHIKO KAKUTANI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

By the age of 42 (in an era in which life expectancy was 40), Leonardo da Vinci had yet to create anything commensurate with his lofty ambitions. At that point, Ross King writes in his new book, \u201cLeonardo and \u2018The Last Supper,\u2019\u00a0\u201d he \u201chad produced only a few scattered paintings, a bizarre-looking music instrument, some ephemeral decorations for masques and festivals and many hundreds of pages of notes and drawings for studies he had not yet published, or for inventions he had not yet built.\u201d Too many of his projects \u2014 like creating a gigantic bronze horse on commission for Lodovico Sforza, the ruler of Milan \u2014 had gone unfinished; other projects having to do with architecture, military engineering and urban planning had not found patrons.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeonardo may have dreamed of constructing tanks and guns, of placing a dome on Milan\u2019s half-built cathedral, or of completing the world\u2019s largest bronze statue,\u201d Mr. King writes. \u201cBut he was going to do none of these things. Instead, he was going to paint a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read full piece at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Revisiting a Famous Meal, Soup to Nuts Ross King\u2019s \u2018Leonardo and \u201cThe Last Supper\u201d\u00a0\u2019 Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy\/The Bridgeman Art Library\u00a0 By\u00a0MICHIKO KAKUTANI By the age of 42 (in an era in which life expectancy was 40), Leonardo da Vinci had yet to create anything commensurate with his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}