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 31
tench,to come forth from below the altar. In certain steps the painter depictedthe hole through which the serpent issued from beneath the altar, andso well did he paint the cleft in one of the steps, that one evening one ofFilippos lads, wishing to hide something, I know not what, from thesight of… … 3 Q<WQ WKH to iz; l-Hl-H Cfi r—I I—I O a V ^^ 2 w fa oa. ISo C/3 ■»- 8 FILIPPO LIPPI fircj appear rather real than painted. Greatly extolled, too, is hisinvention in the scene of the Crucifixion of that Saint, for he imaginedto himself, so it appears, that the Saint was stretched on the cross…
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