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The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

CHAPTER XII
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The other day I went, as you requested, to Fra Sebastiano.

He sends a thousand messages, but only to pray you to come back .-- Your affectionate, "Thomao Cavaliere.
"Rome, _September 6_." All the drawings mentioned by Vasari as having been made for Cavalieri are alluded to here, except the Bacchanal of Children.

Of the Phaethon we have two splendid examples in existence, one at Windsor, the other in the collection of M.Emile Galichon.

They differ considerably in details, but have the same almost mathematical exactitude of pyramidal composition.

That belonging to M.Galichon must have been made in Rome, for it has this rough scrawl in Michelangelo's hand at the bottom, "Tomao, se questo scizzo non vi piace, ditelo a Urbino." He then promises to make another.


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