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 257
of thirty-seven, cutting shortthe expectations that people had conceived of him. His pictures dateabout the year 1440. And Paolo Schiavo—who painted the Madonnaand the figures with their feet foreshortened on the cornice on theCanto de Gori in Florence—strove greatly to follow the manner… … ^ I o I*,o<S g 2 S? MASOLINO DA PANICALE 167 flow of folds to the draperies. The heads of his figures, also, are muchbetter than those made before his day, for he was a little more successfulin making the roundness of the eyes, and many other beautiful partsof the body. And since he began to…
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