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 61
roomwhere those noblemen were, together with one of her sons, who had onhis wrist one of those green birds—called in Verona terrazzani,* becausethey make their nests on the ground—which learn to perch on thewrist, like hawks. It happened, then, that, while she stood with theothers contemplating the… … GIOVAN FRANCESCO MORONE : MADONNA AND CHILD (London : National Gallery, 285. Panel) FRANCESCO MONSIGNORI 33 therefore fallen to the ground, it twice returned to settle on the wristof that painted Child, precisely as if it had been one of those livingchildren who were always holding it on their…
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