...contemporaries. He, on one occasion, took Michelangelo before a magistrate for calling him a dunce, " Golfo neir arte," but met with only ridicule for his pains. Vasari...characterised by exquisite purity and charming sentiment; many of his heads are also beautifully drawn, and in colour, with, perhaps, the single exception of...

...field by the public road, in uneonsecrated ground : he was curions to ascertain the fate of a souf that had never confessed. Such is the statement of...Niccolo dalle Pomerance, whose wife was related to Pièlro's. Whatever his idiosyncratic peculiarities, he was unquestionably one of the best painters...

...His refusal of the sacraments when dying, because, as he is reported to have said, with Voltarmn wit, he was curious to ascertain the fate of a soul that had never confessed, was quite sufficient to cause him to be branded as an infidel, and to provoke uncharitable censures...

...ground in a field by the public road : he was curious, he replied to the remonstrance of the priest, to ascertain the fate of a soul that had never confessed....statement of Gasparo Celio, a Roman painter of the sixteentli century, as coining from Niccolo dalle Pomerance, whose wife was related to Pietro's. He...

...pleased others, while he crowned his life by refusing the sacraments on his death-bed, saying that he was curious to ascertain the fate of a soul that had never confessed. The whole tendency of these times was to isolation. A man was compelled to work by himself and keep...

...artist of whom it is told, refused the sacraments when dying, because as he said with Voltarian wit, " he was curious to ascertain the fate of a soul that had never confessed? " 121. In what city are to be studied the best works of the one who became a monk, and drove nearly...