A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century . ANDREA DEL SARTO 513 Farrer, careful and pleasing, but not done in the masters style or accordingto his habits. Panshanc/er. Seat of Earl Coivper.—Life-size portrait of a man in a cap,writing a letter at a table, supposed, erroneously we think, to be Del Sartohimself. The letter is legible and runs so: ... Dicenbre. MastroDomenico assai mi chanio sod (disfat) to verso di voi, a vendo mostropropinquo ingenio per dimostrarmi qual proprio a ... sono tanto moltoobligate 1523 m. Andr. The person mentioned in these lines is perhap

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A new history of painting in Italy : from the II to the XVI century . ANDREA DEL SARTO 513 Farrer, careful and pleasing, but not done in the masters style or accordingto his habits. Panshanc/er. Seat of Earl Coivper.—Life-size portrait of a man in a cap,writing a letter at a table, supposed, erroneously we think, to be Del Sartohimself. The letter is legible and runs so: ... Dicenbre. MastroDomenico assai mi chanio sod (disfat) to verso di voi, a vendo mostropropinquo ingenio per dimostrarmi qual proprio a ... sono tanto moltoobligate 1523 m. Andr. The person mentioned in these lines is perhapsDomenico Conti, the friend and pupil to whom Andrea bequeathed all hisdrawings (\TASARI, vol. viii., p. 295), whose likeness may be here features are those of a man of thirty, too young for Andrea in 1523 (hewas then aged thirty-six), and besides, unlike his face as given in Vasari andobserved elsewhere. The painting is clearly Del Sartos, and finely of a female at a table with a volume of Petrarch in her a building to the r

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