He died in the prisons of
the Inquisition, he had been condemned for destroying a figure of
the Madonna of his own carving; his patron paid him insufficiently,
so he went to the house, hammer in hand, and destroyed the statue,
with this unfortunate result. He starved himself to death in prison
as a worse fate awaited him. See Vasari.
59 Can this refer to the Second Edition of "The Lives of the Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects," by the kindly Giorgio Vasari?
60 --_The Temptation of Saint Anthony_, from the engraving by Martin
Schongauer.
61 Ghirlandaio.
62 There is a drawing in the Louvre of a faun's head, in pen and ink,
by Michael Angelo, over a red chalk drawing by an inferior hand. It
does not appear to be this drawing mentioned by Vasari, but a
caprice possibly of the same period, in which the master has
undertaken to draw a head with a pen, in which the projections and
indentations of the profile shall contradict the outline of the
conventional red chalk drawing below.
63 Vasari tells us that one of these pulpits had not been placed in its
position in the church even when Michael Angelo's funeral service
was held there in 1564, so it is quite likely that it was still in
the workshop in 1489.
64 That is the Hellenic work of the degenerate Greeks in Italy: all
that was to be seen in his day.
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