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Uranium City

Notes

Edith Wharton muses on The Last Supper From an episode of the BBC series, “Private Life of a Masterpiece”, on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper. Narrator: “And so the painting careered toward the twentieth century, and a critical backlash. Bernard Berensen was a famed and highly influential American art critic, and when he published yet another of his books on Italian art, nobody expected a controversy. But in it, he confessed to a lifelong hatred of The Last Supper. Of the paintings disciples, he wrote: Male voice actor: “What a pack of vehement, gesticulating, noisy foreigners they are.” Narrator, “Berenson’s comments caused a storm, and angry letters were printed in The Times. But the critic had his supporters. The American novelist Edith Wharton wrote to congratulate him on his forthrightness.” Female voice actor: “Ever since I first saw it at 17, I’ve wanted to bash that picture’s face.”

Edith Wharton muses on The Last Supper

From an episode of the BBC series, “Private Life of a Masterpiece”, on Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper.

Narrator: “And so the painting careered toward the twentieth century, and a critical backlash. Bernard Berensen was a famed and highly influential American art critic, and when he published yet another of his books on Italian art, nobody expected a controversy. But in it, he confessed to a lifelong hatred of The Last Supper. Of the paintings disciples, he wrote:

Male voice actor: “What a pack of vehement, gesticulating, noisy foreigners they are.”

Narrator, “Berenson’s comments caused a storm, and angry letters were printed in The Times. But the critic had his supporters. The American novelist Edith Wharton wrote to congratulate him on his forthrightness.”

Female voice actor: “Ever since I first saw it at 17, I’ve wanted to bash that picture’s face.”