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 292
ure in every matter,the King sent him in the year 1540 to Rome, to contrive to obtain certainantique marbles; in which Primaticcio served him with such diligence,that in a short time, what with heads, torsi, and figures, he bought onehundred and twenty-five pieces. And at that same time he caused… … FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO 147 the Nile, and the statue of Cleopatra, which are in the Belvedere; to theend that they might all be cast in bronze. Rosso having meanwhile diedin France, and a long gallery therefore remaining unfinished which hadbeen begun after his designs and in great part adorned with…
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