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 219
ouse of the Vitali he paintedsome giants in terra-verde, which, as I have found in a Latin letterwritten by Girolamo Campagnola to Messer Leonico Tomeo, the philoso-pher, are so beautiful that Andrea Mantegna held them in very greataccount. Paolo wrought in fresco the Volta de Peruzzi, with… … m H . <q :=: d o ^r PAOLO UCCELLO 139 for the air a chameleon, which lives on it and assumes any colour. Andbecause he had never seen a chameleon, he painted a camel, which isopening its mouth and swallowing air, and therewith jftlling its belly;and great, indeed, was his simplicity in making…
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