Vasari on technique; being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects (1907)
Vasari, Giorgio, 1511-1574, Maclehose, Louisa S, Brown, G. Baldwin (Gerard Baldwin), 1849-1932 · London : J. M. Dent & co. · leaf 150
chVasari says in the text had to be left unfinished, was finallyaccomplished. Cancellieri (Lettera . . . intorno la maravi-gliosa Tazza di Porfido, etc., Roma, 1822) makes the surprisingstatement that at one time the tazza had been mended withpieces of white granite ! The tazza is the largest… … Fig. 9.—Sketch of shape of the large porphyry Tazza in the Sala Rotonda of the Vatican. canto vivo, at A in the rough sketch. Fig. 9. A smallerbut more artistically wrought porphyry tazza, beautifullyrestored, and measuring 8 ft. 6 in. in diameter, is in the Pittiat Florence close to the entrance…
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