The lives of the British sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey (1911)
Chancellor, E. Beresford (Edwin Beresford), 1868-1937 · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 35
erry Hill, was always regarded by Walpole asthe work of the same hand ; being, as he himself expressesit, in the great style of Raphael and Michael Angelo,and worthy of either. Whether Torrigiano did other work in this country,is uncertain, nor is it definitely known how long he re-mained here, but… … / r. ■^ < < Oh TORRIGIANO 13 carved) he was, by some powerful influence, respited ; butin a fit of melancholy—drastic treatment and starvelingfare acting on a passionate nature probably—he com-mitted suicide, by refusing to eat the little that wasallowed him, at Seville, in the year 1522, and…
Sculptors, British · Artists
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