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 369
tothe smallest things of art, making the arms of families on the chimney-pieces and on the fronts of the houses of citizens, a most beautiful exampleof which may be seen in the house of the Sommai, which is oppositeto that of the baker Delia Vacca. For the family of the Martelli, more-over, he made… … DONATO 251 tomb of Cosimo de Medici, and even that one has its entrance below, likethe others. It is said that Simone, the brother of Donato, having wrought themodel for the tomb of Pope Martin V, sent for Donato to the end thathe might see it before it was cast. Going to Rome, therefore,…
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