well, leonardo da vinci introduced a very subtle gradation in modeling the forms through the contrast of light and shadow called chiaroscuro. what caravaggio has done about a century later, in the 17th century baroque period, he has intensified this effect and created a dramatic effect spotlighting and creating very drastic sharp changes between the very deep somber tones in the background. you cannot even discern the figures in the background. there possibly aren't any. but the very deep vacuous space in the distance suggests depth. the figures really project out and move toward this. and you have the most important figure, the figure of christ, is illuminated with a sharp contrast, a spotlight. now, what is also interesting is that this lit effect spreads across and is used compositionally in this painting and works with the uplifted hands, with the face. then you noticed the same thing that it's picked up in the hand of the outstretched female figure, the figure of christ's mother. also, notice the stone. so light is very, very important in this work. the composition is very dynami

well, leonardo da vinci introduced a very subtle gradation in modeling the forms through the contrast of light and shadow called chiaroscuro. what caravaggio has done about a century later, in the 17th century baroque period, he has intensified this effect and created a dramatic effect spotlighting and creating very drastic sharp changes between the very deep somber tones in the background. you cannot even discern the figures in the background. there possibly aren't any. but the very deep vacuous space in the distance suggests depth. the figures really project out and move toward this. and you have the most important figure, the figure of christ, is illuminated with a sharp contrast, a spotlight. now, what is also interesting is that this lit effect spreads across and is used compositionally in this painting and works with the uplifted hands, with the face. then you noticed the same thing that it's picked up in the hand of the outstretched female figure, the figure of christ's mother. also, notice the stone. so light is very, very important in this work. the composition is very dynami

well, leonardo da vinci introduced a very subtle gradation in modeling the forms through the contrast of light and shadow called chiaroscuro. what caravaggio has done about a century later, in the 17th century baroque period he has intensified this effect and created a dramatic effect spotlighting and creating very drastic sharp changes between the very deep somber tones in the background. you cannot even discern the figures in the background. there possibly aren't any. but the very deep vacuous space in the distance suggests depth. the figures really project out and move toward this. and you have the most important figure, the figure of christ is illuminated with a sharp contrast, a spotlight. now, what is also interesting is that this lit effect spreads across and is used compositionally in this painting and works with the uplifted hands, with the face. then you noticed the same thing that it's picked up in the hand of the outstretched female figure, the figure of christ's mother. also, notice the stone. so light is very, very important in this work. the composition is very dynamic.

his wife was lisa gardini who is very likely to have sat for leonardo da vinci.hey hope to get dna from her son in the bones of the tomb. they found the ruins of three women where lisa spent her final days. scientists will try to find out whether the dna from lisa's son closely matches that from one of the remains. if the dna match is successful, the team can generate an image of lisa's face from the skull and compare it with the 16th century painting. >>> traditional japanese sweets are pleasing on the eye, shaped like flowers or leaves. they get you thinking about the seasons. but two young women decided it was time to try something new. they're creating snacks that stimulate all the senses starting with your sense of humor. all eyes at this recital are on the musicians. and a row of traditional japanese sweets. almost traditional. gracing the top of each sweet is a tiny musical note. the theme of the sweet is eating sound. the audience gets to savor two culture experiences at the same time, food for the soul and the mind. the fun treats are the work two kyoto

i think when he passed away, i realized that i had a chance to meet the leonardo da vinci of our day, a guy who was a true artist and true inventor and innovator, and i missed it. so when i read this script, i thought this would be a great opportunity to get to know a man that admired. ( applause ) >> stephen: well, arton, good luck. the movie is " "

i think when he passed away, i realized that i had a chance to meet the leonardo da vinci of our day,who was a true artist and true inventor and innovator, and i missed it. so when i read this script, i thought this would be a great opportunity to get to know a man that admired. ( applause ) >> stephen: well, arton, good luck. the movie is " " ¢-2 s$ ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: that's it for the report, ♪ two... two, three... ♪ ♪ (door whooshes open) hey, guys. remember carlos, the elderly one-legged cowboy who lives next door? i beat him up and took his hat! it's really nice. i hope he's not hurt too bad. come on! let's go to a redneck bar. (others cheering) (country music playing) wha...? it's called line dancing, professor.

competitors are spending the weekend launching themselves from a pier hoping to make leonardo da vinci's dream of human-powered flight come true request way they can. what makes usain bolt the fastest man on earth? what science has to say about that next. >> axelrod: at the world track and field championships in moscow today, usain bolt qualifieded for the finals in the 100 meter dash tomorrow. once again jogging across the finish line and making it all look so unbelievably easy. of course, looks can be deceiving, and scientists are notice analyzing every step of the fastest man in the world hoping to unlock the secrets of his performance. here's terrell brown. >> reporter: usain bolt is one of the most gifted athletes in the world. the six-time olympic gold medalist has shattered world records in both the 100 and 200 meter races. >> i was given the gift, and that's what i do. >> reporter: at the university of virginia speed clinic, max pro copy studies what makes elite runners like bolt so fast. >> he has been able to marry tremendous genetic advantages with a son of practice and work e

i think when he passed away, i realized that i had a chance to meet the leonardo da vinci of our day,uy who was a true artist and true inventor and innovator, and i missed it. so when i read this script, i thought this would be a great opportunity to get to know a man that admired. ( applause ) >> stephen: well, arton, good luck. the movie is " " ¢-2 s$ ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: that's it for the report, captioning sponsored by comedy central from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is the "daily show" with jon stewart. ( cheers and applause ). >> john: welcome to the "daily show." i'm john oliver. i am still in for jon stewart who is scourge competing to be america's next top model. oh, no, they voted him out! they voted him-- don't listen to them, jon. you're beautiful on the inside! and there is no shame being more catalog than editorial. that's a fact. my guest tonight the writer, director, and staffer a very funny new movie "in a world" lake bell will be here. very good, very good. but we begin tonight with breaking news. >> the big chill between

. >> a group of leonardo da vinci's sketches are about to take flight at the smithsonian. the human flight sketches will be on display at the air and space museum through september 13 to october. it describes how da vinci thought that humans could fly one day. the sketches are on loan from a library in italy. it will be only the second time they have been on display in the united states. the way yourd, how baby is delivered could impact their development later in life. >> plus, a virginia teenager is missing and the mystery surrounding their disappearance. >> and a special delivery to a local senator's office today. >> sequestration strikes again, this time preschool children feeling the effects. >> parents marched to their local senator's office to get an answer about the education cuts that will affect headstart programs. greta kreuz has how thousands could be impacted. >> it is a 1-2 punch we are talking about. sequestration, which means 800 slots -- headrt start slots, and bigger reductions looming in the budget. through the doors, down the halls of senator tim kanes m

da vinci code" on the scene. instead it's a real-life team of researchers on the edge of finally answering, just who is that woman with the cryptic smile in leonardo da vinci's masterpiece, the mona lisa. for centuries, historians and art lovers pondered the possibilities. one of his lovers, a muse, perhaps, or maybe even da vinci himself dressed as a woman. italians have long speculated that the lisa in mona lisa is lisa gherardini. she's believed to have posed for da vinci, but nobody has ever been able to prove she's the one in the painting. the answer may be in this crypt in florence. >> translator: we have some certainty that in that tomb, there are lisa gherardini's descendants. >> reporter: they climbed in for the first time in 300 years, and they will take dna samples. >> translator: we were lucky i would say, because there was a good amount of bone remains. >> reporter: if the dna here is related to another set of bones, believed to be gherardini herself, then the remains are confirmed, they can use facial reconstruction technology similar to a crime scene to figure out what she looked like. >> translator: if everything goes as it should,

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i'd say it again eye really think he's like the leonardo da vinci of our day, somebody really had anation for aesthetic design and beaut and art but also understood how to make things work and made things that made people's lives better. >> rose: he also seemed, therefore, to have some sense of what life was about. >> yeah, i think-- you know, you see a guy like that and for a lot of people eye mean, i admire him as a hero, really, and people like that in our minds they start to become larger than life. people that experience that great level of success,un you know, the michael jordans of the world, the steve jobs of the world, the people who go to this rs of other stratosphere of brilliance. and i think that steve had a humanity to him that was really complicated but really interesting. and i think it was grounded in his scars. as a kid he was given up for adoption, and i think there was a sense of rejection that he felt when he realized that. and history repeated itself and he was again rejected by the very compy he created. and i think that there was a little bit of a mistrust of

from the time of leonardo da vinci to the artists who skewer today's politicians, the drawings can anger, amuse and sometimes inspire change. "newshour" political editor christina bellantoni has our book conversation. bellantoni: a picture is worth a thousand words. that old adage how drawings have for centuries from the situation about government and leaders is the subject of a new book the art of controversy. political cartoons and their enduring powers by journalist victor. he's the former editor and publisher of the nation magazine and now teaches at columbia university graduate school of journalism. thanks so much for being here. very interesting book. let's dive right in with a broad look. what role do you think political car toongz play in our society. >> it's very difficult to say because you could argue that curb blocks images of richard nixon is what stays with us to this day or david levine's picture of lyndon johnson showing vietnam. he's going to be with us in the history books in perpetuity. so they have a lot to do with it but they seem despite the fact that our critics do

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you know, i think he was like the leonardo da vinci of our day, and i remember going home that night, iphone there. what i realized was that all of these relationships i have in my life are connected and pulled together by glue that he laid down with the products that he built, and he took something that was so complicated, you know, when he first entered into the computing game, it was something that was just for geeks and for people that were engineers and actually understood how these things worked, and he made something so complicated so simple that my 7-year-old nephew can facetime me on his ipad, and my 80-year-old grandma is addicted to candy crunch, you know, playing video games, so -- >> how about that? >> and i think that that's kind of the magic of what this guy did. he took processes and things that other people built that were really complicated and made it so simple that we can all connect to it. >> you obviously have a lot of respect for steve jobs, and you said when you were approached about this, that the word i hear over and over again you were intimidated. why? >> y

lisa gerrardini was leonardo da vinci's next door neighbor. opened her family's tomb and hope dna tebss on her sons will match a skeleton found last year. they believe that skeleton is the muse herself. many art historians think gerrardini's husband commissioned the famous portrait to mark the birth of one of their children. frica. 2004. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >>> tonight the way we travel by air has been altered, perhaps forever. the plot apparently involved nine commercial jetliners bound for the u.s., from four major air carriers. tonight a total of 24 arrests have been made. >> flashback to 2006, when british officials thwarted a terrorist plot that involved using liquid explosives a

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in florence, italy and hope the results will tell hem if they found the woman who inspired leonardo da vinci'sey might do a virtual recreation of her face to see how it matches up with the painting. >>> 16 workers from a county maintenance garage in new jersey reportedly have won one of the three winning powerball tickets. it's worth nearly $150 million. we still have not heard from whoever is holding the second winning ticket that was sold in new jersey, the third winner, project engineer paul white, is from hamm lake minnesota, the father of two teenagers and says that is he no longer stress being how to pay for their college educations and breathing quite a sigh of relief i'm sure. congratulations to all of them. >>> okay, any of you parents at home, do you have a baby who will not eat her vegetables? who wants to eat that green mushy stuff. check out how dad handles this, distract with the junk food, a kit kat bar and does the switch-a-roo! >> oh! >> nice work, papa-san. >> the bait and switch. >> the old bait and switch. >> well done. >> you know she wasn't feeling it after, oh, snap, tha

family tomb in europe in an attempt to identify the bones of a woman thought to be the model for leonardo da vinci's portrait. the masterpiece is thought to be inspired by the wife of a merchant, one of his paterrons. dna testing could confirm her remains. they want to figure out who she was and identify why the secret smile like that. there have been a lot of different theories out there, gentlemen, maybe bad teeth, maybe cerebral palsy. >> bad teeth makes sense to me. was toothbrushing a big deal back then. >> i don't know. the secret smile. i thought about this story and i'm interested, i guess, but also something to the mystery, like maybe let it be a mystery. >> you know what the mystery is to me, why people make such a big deal about the mona lisa. i saved up for a year or two, went to paris, tried to be fancy with a girlfriend when i was 25, first overseas trip, walked in, two feet by two feet, 6,000 tourists standing in front of it, and looked at it and said that's all right. >> that was my general reaction. >> moved on to boat chellie and got a waffle. >> maybe we're not cultured enough, br