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 28
res in the roundthat had been given to him by Bertoldo. Michelagnolo, seeing this,made some out of emulation; wherefore Lorenzo,-seeing his fine spirit,always regarded him with much expectation. And he, thus encouraged,after some days set himself to counterfeit from a piece of marble anantique head… … MICHELAGNOLO BUONARROTI 9 Magnificent Lorenzo was astonished; and then, perceiving that, departingfrom the form of the antique head, he had opened out the mouth afterhis own fancy and had made a tongue, with all the teeth showing, thatlord, jesting pleasantly, as was his wont, said to him, Surely…
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