In his notebooks, he argues that painting is the greatest of all the arts because it can set a picture of your lover before you.

在他的笔记中，他声称绘画是所有艺术中最伟大的，因为它能将爱人的图像呈现于眼前。

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An expert has claimed to have unravelled the mystery behind the world-famous Mona Lisa painting - saying the model was a man and Leonardo da Vinci's lover.

一位专家宣称自己揭开了世界名画《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》之后的秘密——画中人的原型，不但是个男模，还是达芬奇的情人。

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This preface must necessarily by short and modest, for I cannot claim to be an expert in painting, merely an ardent lover of the art.

这篇前言就必须由短和谦虚，因为我不能声称自己是一位专家在绘画中，仅仅是一个虔诚的情人的艺术。

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Lucy, in a late painting, is not her lover but her executioner, pressing a knife to her bosom.

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The frustrated art lover spent long afternoons visiting museums, galleries and artist's studios, dealing in the odd painting by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

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