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 360
per-suasion he painted, for presenting to the Pope, a picture of Christ from thewaist upwards in the form of an Ecce Homo, which work, whether itwas that the works of Michelagnolo, Raffaello, Polidoro, and others hadmade him lose some force, or for some other reason, did not appear to thepainters,… … TIZIANO DA CADORE 171 picture that he had executed at that time a nude woman representingDanae, who had in her lap Jove transformed into a rain of gold; andthey praised it much, as one does in the painters presence. After theyhad left him, discoursing of Tizianos method, Buonarroti commendedit not…
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