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 102
,when well studied in every part, can teach in liberal measure all theprecepts of the good painter. Beyond this Prophet is an aged Sibyl ofgreat beauty, who, as she sits, studies from a book in an attitude of extra-ordinary grace, not to speak of the beautiful attitudes of the two boysthat are… … THE LYBIAN SIBYL(After the fresco by Miqhelagnolo. Rome: The Vatican^ Sistine Chapel) MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI 37 writings and copying them with extraordinary attention; and as asupport for the weight of the book Michelagnolo painted a boy between hislegs, who is upholding it while he writes, all…
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