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  • Most recently Silvano Vincenti, head of the Italian National Historic Properties Evaluation Commission, has tried hard to get us to believe that the model for the portrait is a man - namely, Giangiacomo Caprotti da Oreno, whom he identifies as Leonardo's servant, nicknamed "Salai".

    The Guardian World News Germaine Greer 2011

  • I started to draw when I was very young and my first drawings were copies of Leonardo's inventions.

    Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

  • But, then, this is Leonardo's first flight; presumably, it will not take long before he succumbs to the ennui of modern travel, enduring its endless discomforts and delays, not to mention the stupefying drone of the engines or talkative passengers.

    A Laboratory in the Sky Peter Pesic 2011

  • By the same token there is no serious discussion of essential topics like chiaroscuro in 16th-century art or of Leonardo's Milanese works.

    The Misery Memoirist James Hall 2011

  • Leonardo's paintings arrived at the National Gallery; enthusiasm for them slips from me by the day.

    The best exhibitions of 2011: Adrian Searle's choice 2011

  • As Leonardo's reaction to Hero's feigned demise "I'm really pissed my daughter's dead" suggests, psychological truth is not the company's priority.

    Funk It Up About Nothin' - review 2011

  • Elsewhere, a worker's form, framed by the circle of bolts he is tightening, recalls the geometric perfection of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man.

    Photo-Op: Steel Nerve 2012

  • I started to draw when I was very young and my first drawings were copies of Leonardo's inventions.

    Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

  • The film goes straight to the exhibit's highlights, including two paintings of women who may have been linked romantically to Leonardo's patron, Ludovico Sforza.

    Leonardo Goes to the Movies Ellen Gamerman 2012

  • Lastly but not leastly on Gainesville's veg-friendly mile is Leonardo's 706.

    Carolyn Scott: Goin' Back to Gainesville Carolyn Scott 2011

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