Orson Welles is considered by many to be one of the world's greatest filmmakers, and his debut Citizen Kane is considered the best film ever made. The most famous of these was the film "The Other Side of the Wind", starring Dennis Hopper and John Huston, which Welles had been working on since the late sixties. The film was nearly completed in 1979, but Welles ran into major financial and legal difficulties that halted production. The biggest of these was that the brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran, who was the main financial backer of the film, withdrew the financing after the Shah was overthrown and exiled from the country. This led to a years-long dispute over the ownership of The Other Side of the Wind, and the film was never finished. In the years since Welles' death, there have been a number of attempts to edit and release the film, and recent rumors suggest that his version may debut in 2010.
4. Stuart's portrait of George Washington
The portrait of George Washington on the modern one dollar bill was painted by Gilbert Stuart, a famous artist who painted portraits of a number of kings and presidents. It is not well known that the Washington dollar bill was never completed. The painting, known as the Athenaeum, was intentionally left unfinished by Stewart so that he could glue it up and easily make copies, which he later sold for $100 a piece. For his part, Washington is said to have been particularly annoyed by Stewart's behavior and even once visited the artist's home. went to the studio and demanded his portrait.
3. Gaudi's Sagrada Familia
Probably the longest-running architectural project, the Sagrada Familia is a huge and uniquely designed Roman Catholic church in Barcelona that has been under construction since 1882. The eccentric building was designed by the famous architect Antoni Gaudi and was considered his crown. achievement. Gaudí worked on the church for forty years and even dedicated the last fifteen years to it, but he died in 1926 before it was completed. Later, the project was taken over by Gaudí's assistants, who continued to work on it even after it was severely damaged by anarchists during the Spanish Civil War. Since then, the project has been in a constant state of flux with the arrival of a number of different architects and builders, but has yet to be opened or actively used as a church. Even in its unfinished state, the Sagrada Familia is Barcelona's most popular tourist attraction, and officials claim the building could finally be open to the public by 2010.
2. Da Vinci's Gran Cavallo
Leonardo Da Vinci is said to have left several unfinished works of art as he was known to soon lose interest and move on to other projects. His most famous unfinished masterpiece was left unfinished due to circumstances beyond his control. In the 15th century, Da Vinci was commissioned by the Duke of Milan to build a horse statue in honor of his father. Da Vinci worked on the sculpture for twelve years, and in 1492 he unveiled a 23-foot-tall clay model of the "Gran Cavallo," which is hailed by many as one of the finest works of art ever created. But war broke out between France and Italy before the horse was cast in bronze. The duke then decided to donate the 200,000 pounds of metal intended for the horse to the army, who used it to make cannons. Da Vinci's giant horse sculpture was never completed, and it is said that invading French archers later used his clay model of a horse to aim at.
1. Mozart's Requiem
Shortly before his death in 1791, the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was contacted by a mysterious person and asked to write a Requiem to be performed at a funeral for his late wife. Suffering from an unknown illness, Mozart allegedly took this assignment as a sign of his impending death and even believed that the piece he composed was actually a requiem for his own funeral. Mozart died before the work was completed, and the missing movements were completed by one of his students, Franz Sussmayr. Then the work was given to a mysterious patron, who was Franz Von Walsegg. Mozart's wife Constanze eventually identified the work as her husband's, but beyond that the story is full of rumors and half-truths, and to this day it is not known exactly which parts of the Requiem were altered or added later. Why was the famous composer so paranoid and fearful in his last days?
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