Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects (1912)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, De Vere, Gaston du C · London, Macmillan and co. ld. & The Medici society, ld. · leaf 563
er praising the worksof Andrea, so from that day onward did he ever decry them in public.Above all did he censure without reserve the pictures that Andrea hadmade in the said Chapel of S. Cristofano, saying that they were worth-less, because in making them he had imitated the ancient works… … ANDREA MANTK.NA ;(Fk relic, I H I M \DON.N \Uffi i, lOIv P II- I 1! I ROCKS ANDREA MANTEGNA 281 tender softness that is found in flesh and in things of nature, which arepliant and move in various ways ; adding that Andrea would have madethose figures much better, and that they would have been more…
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