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 313
somonstrous and hideous, that I do not think that there is anything betterof that kind to be seen, for with its eyes it reveals venom, fire, and death,in an aspect truly terrifying. And certainly, as for such things, I do notbeheve that any one ever did them better than he, or came near himin… … PIERO DI COSIMO 131 impossible that Nature should produce anything so deformed and strangeamong her creations. This monster is now in the guardaroba of DukeCosimo de Medici, as is also a book, hkewise by the hand of Piero, ofanimals of the same kind, most beautiful and bizarre, hatched…
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