AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Anne Frank House museum said Friday that it has restored 52 photographs and images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself up while hiding from the Nazis. The water-stained collage of celebrities of the day, such as Greta Garbo and the Lane Sisters, that Anne Frank created after her family went into hiding have been seen by millions of visitors, offering them another view into the mind of the girl best known for her posthumously published diary. One photo, of Olympic skater and Hollywood star Sonja Henie, had been out of place since an earlier museum renovation in the 1970s and has now been returned to its original spot, said museum spokeswoman Annemarie Bekker. An investigation of the pictures found that most were movie stars cut from the Dutch women’s magazine Libelle, Bekker said. As Anne grew older, she pasted over some of the glamor shots with reproductions of artwork by Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. To comment on this article from the article page, javascript must be turned on.
If it is a da Vinci, skeptics say, it went unrecognized by auction-house experts and the specialized dealers who attended the sale, including the one who bought it. Eighteen months ago, the Swiss collector showed the portrait to Peter Silverman, a friend and Canadian collector who was the first to suspect his friend might have made an amazing investment. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, saw the work in December and was struck by the left-handed shading — da Vinci was left-handed — as well as the physiognomy and the details. Carmen Bambach, curator of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and a leading Leonardo specialist, said, based on the photograph, the “work does not seem to resemble the drawings and paintings by the great master.
The horse, shipped from Italy in two huge containers, was designed by Leonardo in the 15th century as a tribute to Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan. After Grammy-award winner Shakira received the Humanitarian Award for her work in early childhood education, she stunned Jimenez Cardenas by inviting her to the stage to accept her own Humanitarian Award. Levin, president of the Volunteer Center of Silicon Valley and an active member of the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, received the award at a volunteer summit held in Sacramento. After I wrote that Bay Area Olympic athletes Ryan Hall and Shannon Rowbury were past participants in the Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot, the chief executive of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group politely let me know I’d left a couple people out. Please increase the credibility of your post by including your full name and city in the body of your comment.
From the child jumping off the barn roof to Leonardo da Vinci studying the flight of birds, people imagined wings. On a flight in the 1960s from Chicago to California, the plane pulled away from the gate, stopped and went back. As we went from the romance of flying to “this is the best route from here to there,” poetry and laughter receded, and we began to hear stories of hijacking. Finally, word came that the government had met the hijackers’ demands, and a ransom would be delivered to the plane. His belt buckle set off an alarm, and he was hauled off to the right of the room for a pat-down inspection and interrogation.
