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 422
lds;and then, climbing up to some extraordinary place, and settling himselfnow in one attitude and now in another, as a Prophet, an Apostle, asoldier, or something else, he would have himself portrayed, standingthus for a period of two hours without speaking, not otherwise than asif he had been a… … BACCHUS(After Jacopo Sansovino. Florence: Museo Nazionale) JACOPO SANSOVINO 193 But to return to the statue; when it was carried to completion, itwas held to be the most beautiful work that had ever been executed bya modern master, seeing that in it Sansovino overcame a difficulty neveryet…
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