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Scientists seek to unravel genius within da Vinci DNA code

Edit Belfast Telegraph 05 May 2016
Experts embarking on a major project to investigate the genius of Leonardo da Vinci hope to extract DNA from the Renaissance Man's fingerprints ... Share Go To ... Two of his paintings, Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are possibly the most famous and admired works of art in the world ... Eugenio Giani, president of the Regional Council, said ... The last Plantagenet King of England was born in the same year as da Vinci ... ....

Leonardo da Vinci's DNA: Experts unite to shine modern light on a Renaissance genius (J Craig Venter Institute)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
His artistic legacy includes the iconic Mona Lisa and The Last Supper ... 'The last Plantagenet King of England and the author who gave us Don Quixote are two whose places in history are somewhat better documented now through recent anthropological study ... Ross King is the author of five books on Italian art and history, including Leonardo and The Last Supper (2012) and Florence....

8 times the movies and TV subliminally recreated famous paintings on screen

Edit Digital Spy 03 May 2016
Directors love a bit of art ... Here are just eight of the times famous (and not so famous) paintings entered the public consciousness subliminally. 1. Django Unchained (2012) ... War and Peace (BBC One, 2016) ... 4 ... No kidding ... The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci (c. 1495) The Last Supper crops up all over the place (not least in The Da Vinci Code, obviously) but Robert Altman riffed on it for his satirical swipe at the Vietnam war....

Posters showing Rahul Gandhi as cop

Edit Indian Express 03 May 2016
In the poster, Rahul in police uniform, is seen telling opposition leaders to get ready to witness “a government of good governance” in the state which they “looted for 27 years” ... Share This Article. Related Article ... Sheila face of Cong in DelhiCPM now in ‘Last Supper’ poster row,Congress demands apology. jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('.rel-article').bxSlider({ maxSlides. 6, slideMargin. 3 }); });....

Marisol: the forgotten star of pop art

Edit The Guardian 03 May 2016
Twitter ... Even the sculptures that depict the artist herself – such as her great Self-Portrait Looking at the Last Supper, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art – give away little ... Last year in New York El Museo del Barrio, a museum devoted to Latin American art, presented a smallish but still welcome retrospective of Marisol’s sculptures and works on paper, on tour from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee ... ....

Wigs, wit and an all-female last supper: Marjorie Salvaterra's theatrical portraits

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016
The photographer’s book Her shows women of all ages being ‘joyfully imperfect’. @rgay. I am a 41-year-old woman and I recognise that the older I get, the more invisible I become and the less cultural value I hold. We are all part of a culture that is desperately inhospitable to women at any age ... I am getting older. I suppose I am losing my looks, whatever looks I may have had ... My body is changing ... Twitter ... Take Her Last Supper, for example ... ....
photo: Creative Commons / Nicolas Genin
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Prince's last supper went untouched, says musician's personal chef

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016
Related ... “It felt like he wasn’t himself probably the last month or two,” Roberts said ... Roberts last saw Prince the evening before the musician was found dead at Paisley Park ... Related ... Many who saw his final public appearance at Paisley Park only days before he died said he may have seemed more tired (one person who was at one of his last shows in Atlanta said his speaking voice was weak at times), but overall he was not changed ... ....

Rockstar, Take-Two file trademark for Judas game

Edit Shacknews 02 May 2016
The applications, in the online games and digital materials categories, were filed last week ... So what is it? A Last Supper simulator? A Judas Priest music maker? Maybe we'll get a teaser ... ....

LGBT Pilgrimage to Ireland, Land of Rainbows and Wedding Bells–Part 2 (New Ways Ministry)

Edit Public Technologies 01 May 2016
On the last day of their pilgrimage, the U.S ... While Martin opposed marriage equality in last year's referendum, his conciliatory manner during the debate and afterwards, as well as his frequent affirmations of LGBT people, helped maintain a relationship with the LGBT community ... Jeannine Gramick with a painting of an inclusive Last Supper to honor her efforts seeking LGBT equality in the church....

California dreaming: Anna Jones’s final meal

Edit The Guardian 29 Apr 2016
The cook, stylist and food writer dreams of a Californian sunset and beach-side treats.. Get Cook this Saturday free with the Guardian ... Breakfast and brunch are my favourite meals, but I’d have to have pasta if this is the last time I’m ever going to eat ... Related. Olafur Eliasson’s last meal . My last supper ... Even though I might have the opportunity to stuff my face for this last meal, I don’t really enjoy feeling overly full … ... ....

Farm-to-table restaurant Tante Carole closes in Old Chelsea

Edit Canada Dot Com 28 Apr 2016
Tante Carole, a well-regarded new restaurant in Old Chelsea, was to serve its last supper Thursday ... of last season as the town switches from wells to a municipal water system ... While Tante Carole's last official meal service was lunch on Thursday, they were to serve a special last supper to a small group of loyal regular customers on Thursday evening....

Plan your week's theatre – top tickets

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016
@lyngardner. Monday ... Laura Dean’s This Room, about her experience of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder, is at Battersea Arts Centre from tonight as part of A Nation’s Theatre, which this week also includes Lizi Patch’s Punching the Sky at London’s Soho theatre, Toby Hulse’s Bed Time at the Polka theatre, Wimbledon, i and Reckless Sleeper’s brilliant The Last Supper at the Southbank Centre ... Twitter. Tuesday ... Twitter. Wednesday ... ....

Artistic revival in wake of Nepal’s massive quake

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 25 Apr 2016
The Xanadu of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a myth — but the actual city (now Beijing), built by the great Mongol emperor Kublai Khan in the 13th century, was actually created by artists from Nepal ... the reconstruction of an historic city ... While Nepal’s lost-wax metal casting and fine woodwork look agonizingly difficult, repousée seems impossible — like trying to paint Da Vinci’s Last Supper with a roller bush ... ....
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