Which work I saw in that place and I thought it very
worthy."
All were pleased with my picture, and M. Angelo added that in Narbonne I
would have also seen the picture St. Sebastian in the Cathedral, and he
said:
"In France there is some good painting, and the King of France has many
palaces and pleasure houses with innumerable paintings, both in
Fontainebleau, where the king kept together two hundred painters, well
paid, for a certain time; and in Madrid, the pleasure house which he
built, where he voluntarily imprisons himself at times, in memory of
Madrid in Spain where he was a prisoner."
"I think," said M. Lactancio, "that I heard a while ago Francisco
d'Ollanda name amongst paintings the tomb that you, Senhor Michael,
sculptured in marble; but I do not understand how sculpture can be called
painting."
Then I began to laugh heartily, and begging permission of the Master,
said:
"To save Senhor Michael trouble I will reply to Senhor Lactancio
concerning this doubt of his, which has followed me here from my own
country.
"As you will find that all the employments which have most art and
reasonableness and grace are those which most nearly approach the drawing
or painting, so those which most nearly approach it proceed from it and
are a part or member of it, such as sculpture or statuary, which is
nothing else but painting itself, although it may well appear to some to
be a separate art; it is, however, condemned to serve painting, its
mistress.
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