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Show The Salt LakeTribune FRIDAY, May28, 1999 2s i EH = 5 SS = Be a= EEE z= aes z Ne Hope For Peace? News of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic’s indictment by the International War Crimes Tribunal for atrocities committed by his forces in Kosovohit Serbslike a bombshell, making peace negotiations seem even more remote. Details: A-1 Tensions Rise: Pakistani forces shot down: at least one Indian fighter jet along the twonations’ disputed Himala- yan border on Thursday, driving tensions betweenthe historic rivals to dangerous new levels, Details: A-3 Media Blackout: Taiwanese journal- ists are being locked out, pager companies forbidden to transmit news and a Hong Kong cable station disconnected from manyofits viewers as China's government prepares for the anniversary of Tiananmen Square Details: A-9 STATE OF UTA Special Session: Ending a month of speculation, Gov. Mike Leavitt on Thursday said he would ask lawmakers to meet in specialsessionthis fall to con- sider measures to safeguard schools and Antonio Calanni/TheAssociated Press Membersof the news media crowdinto the Santa Maria delle Grazie church in Milan for the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's “The Last Supper.” The painting wenton display after 22 years of restoration — a project that took much longerthan the four years the Tuscan artist needed to complete the original work. ‘The Last Supper’ Is Cleaner, Brighter disarm the mentallyill. Details: A-1 Lively Meeting Likely: Since most county commissioners in western Utah are on record opposing so much wilderness, a lively meeting is expected today when a 1-million-acre wilderness proposal is explainedto them by Gov. Mike Leavitt, Sen. Bob Bennett and Rep. Jim Hansen. Details: C-1 Project Care: About 400 turned out Thursday for the seventh annual Cen- tral City Senior Resource Fair for several hours of gathering information about a variety of services available to senior citizens. Details: C-1 ge. But somecritics feel restorers replaced da Vinci's work with their own “The Last Supper” on show to the lookedlike. is president of ArtWatch In- world Thursday, the result of a 22- year cleaning that brought light and ternational, restorations color to Leonardo da Vinci's grease- and grime-blackened masterpiece the fresco —- sary even “in termsof conserva- tion,” contended London-based Michael Daley, director of ArtWatch UK saying it removed Working on commission for Duke Ludovico Sforza from 1494-98, da Vinci renderedhis interpretation of Christ's last meal with his apostles by painting on bumpy. dry plaster traces of earlier retouchings they believe may have been more faithful to theoriginal. The latest restoration it the 10th re Minister Giovanna Melansided over a VIP-only showing late Thursday, part of events Shedaisy has a Top single and a hotselling album — “The Whole Shebang Never heard of them” They are the Os<elsi and Kassidy. are Leonardo's original and brilliant colors.” said Pinin Brambilla Barci- using pigments mixed with egg and oil “People seem tolike it, but that’s not theissue. It’s a postmodern painting now, lon, who spent half her professional tory of Santa Maria work inthe refec: delle Grazie and not a Renaissance painting. church in downtown Milan. Nothing has been removed from theoriginal painting and nothing has been added,” she said James Beck With scaffolding andcurtains re- Big Drop: Renewed worries of infla tion and higherinterest rates sent stocks into retreat Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial averageplunged 235 clos. ing at 10,416.93. It was the ninth-worst one-daydropever andthe steepest since Sept. 30, 1998 Stocks: B-3 Merger Gets OK: The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday approved the $13.5 billion merger of Cincinnati's Kroger Co. and Fred Meyer Inc. the parent company of Utah's Smith’s Food and Drug Centers Details: B-1 artistic andhistorical heritage Overall, however, the painting i now “18-20 percent Leonardo and 80 percent by the restorer,” said James Beck, an art-history professor at Columbia University in New York City They scraped everything away and repainted it themselves,” said y gtime critic of many of It aly’s Vinet's origina restoration coordinator Guiseppe Ba ile said In areas of th foot-long paintin OPINION commission restoration tech She repainted the which | thought was | Beck said of Brambilla. “People seem tc it, but that’s not the is sue I's ay modern painting now 9 the according to Pietr lan raphy on the “Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” “They get on you aboutthings you did when you were 18 and 19 because theytell you you're a role mod- ¥ ¢ painting estorers should and not a Ken Beck arg of el,” he said. “Jay, | don’t know about you, but when | was 18 = or 19, | didn't make any decisions based on well, | might be a role model 25 years from now.” The formerpro wrestler bragsin his book aboutvisiting prostitutes in Nevada,carousingin the Philippines, using steroids and marijuana, andlosing his virginity on a bet at 16. ona A 130-year-old house that Ernest Hemingway oncelived in was spared from demolition by a dollar. Theloca!library sold the two-story Victorian home to Scot and Stacy Sterenberg for that amount — and a promisethattheywill moveit. The city wants the land to expandthe library, but nobodybid on the homeat an auction last month. The Sterenbergs were the only ones to ask to buy the house where a young Hemingway and his family lived for six months in 1906. The couple will have the house movedto lot about a mile awayin thecity's historic district. MILESTONES Apologized: Britain's largest selling tabloid daily, The Sun, for publishing a topless photo of royal bride-to-be Sophie Rhys-Jones. Agreed:Avis,the nation’s secondlargestrental car company, to provide wheelchair-accessible shuttle busesat all of its airport locations. Died: Jose Francisco Urgiles Toledo, the 10-yearold boyhit by the Amtraktrain thatkilled his mother and three brothers. Displayed:Theoriginal “Star-Spangled Banner,” whichinspired Francis Scott Key to write the U.S. national anthem. It is being shownat the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History while it undergoesrestoration. Today's Birthdays: Singer Gladys Knightis 55. SingerBilly Vera is 55. HE MILLENNIUM THIRTY YEARS’ WAR: Central Europe lay in ruins by 1648 as exhaustedruler met at Westphalia to end the Thirty Years’ War, oneof the most brutal fights of the second millennium. Triggered by a CathOlic archbishop’s 1618 order to raze a Protestant church in Prague, a religious revolt quickly trans- formedinto a kaleidoscope of warsfor land and power among fast-shifting alliances. Mercenary armies plundered and destroyed cities and countryside, redrawing Europe's map and weakening Roman Ca- plaster. Byy 1566, architect Giorgio Vasari noted that the painting was decaying tholicism’s influence. When it ended — after four years of peace talks — Spain and Denmark were broken as European powers, Cardinal Richelieu's France was ascendant, Sweden expanded and the and looked like nothing more than a blinding spot.” Grease from adjoin Austrian monarchy was weakened. Germany, fractured and frightened, took 200 years to recover. Great Britain could have profited from Europe's debacle, but tumbledinto a devastating civil war of its ing kitchens already was seeping into the wall under the work History heaped further indignities on it. Workmen in the 17th century own. King Charles’ Cavaliers lost the war — and the cut away Christ’s legs and feet to widen a door. Napoleon's troops king's head in 1649 — to Parliament's Roundheads under Oliver Cromwell. ON THIS ing, bringing downthe roof and one new life and colors Thursday — a much more vibrant versionof the almost-blackened wall left blank some patches nal paint was erased y time — parts of Jesus’ blue cloak andthefigures of the apostles Mat thew and Simon Elsewhere. they used high-techsei ence, sp chemicals and micro: scopes to remove piled-on paint and varnish of earlier restorations, flake to re Jesse Ventura complained abouthis loss of privacy as he plugged his bare-all autobiog- boarded their horses in the hall. In 1943, an Allied bombhit the build moved and fluodlights focused on the fresco, da Vinci s work showed by flake, GRABBING THE HEADLINES It wa s a tempera painting rather than tue fresco painting on wet previews for the news media What wehavebrought tolight life overseeing the group that monitors The restoration itself was unneces- Critics condemnedtherestoration — which took nearly two decades longer than Leonardo spent painting Things Are Looking Up: The group BUSINESS historicallysignificant in themselves — intact and projected an image somewhereelsein the refectory of what thefrescooriginally may have that included a Mass, full-page newspaper ads touting the project and Calendar: F-1 haveleft the earlier restorations — WORLD FOCUS BY PIERO VALSECCHI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MILAN, Italy — Thenation proudly put a brighter version of POOH HOHSHSSOSHSHHSHSHHHSSHSHSHOHSHHHOHCOHEHHSROSHEHEHOHHEHOOESEOESEOOOEEOLHLECEH OE OR2O88 = EDs itn . 7 * (hua A2 TODAY'S BRIEFING BY: Kim Hiatt and Don Robinson wall, but the painting was spared The nine known previous restora tions, often poorly executed, added to the miseries of the masterpiece as did humidity, dust and pollution In 1533, England's Archbishop declared the mar: Marani said nage of King Henry Vill to Anne Boleynvalid. In 1929, the first all-color talking picture, “On With the Show,” opened in New York Italy's successive governments have been closely associated with the latest restoration In 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were born to Elzire Melandri, the culture minister called the refurbished work “the in Dionneat the family farm in Ontario, Canada. In 1984, President Reagan ted state funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for an unidentified heritanc we want to leave to future generations rican soldier killed in the Vietnam War. (The re- To guard the refurbished work visitors will be directed through spe mains werelater positively identified as those of Air cial filtering systems and dust-ab- ForceLt. MichaelJ. Blassie.) refectory In 1998, Comic actor Phil Hartman, of “Saturday Night Live” and NewsRadio" fame, was shot to death at his homein Encino, Calif, by his wite, Brynn, sorbing carpets before reaching the Reservations will be nec essary for the 15-minutevisits who thenkilled herself inexcusable: Unless the odd develop. ments surrounding high government of | ficials’ knowledge of Chinapilfering the United States’ nuclear weapons secrets were part of some | counterintellig: Utah OnLin operation, they are inexplicable excusable Editorial: A-16 2 Today's Highlights at: www.sltrib.com © www sitrib.com/polities/ — Visit Utah Polltics, The Tribune's new Web magazine devoted to polities and electioninformation. 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