 If Leonardo, the Florentine painter, is now in Florence, we beg you will inform us what kind of life he is leading, that is to say if he has begun any work, as we have been told, and what this work is, and if you think that he will remain for the present...  Isabella D'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539: A Study of the Renaissance - עמוד 318מאת Julia Cartwright, Julia Mary Cartwright Ady - 1903תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | James Cahill - 1994 - 218 דפים
...wrote in 1 501 to an official in Florence asking him to approach Leonardo for a painting, she wrote "If he consents, we would leave the subject and the time to him." Despite these concessions, she never got her picture. And her attempt to get a painting for her studiolo... | |
 | Howard S. Becker, Robert R. Faulkner, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett - 2006 - 253 דפים
...collector, wrote to the Carmelite Vicar-General of Florence: "Your Reverence might find out if [Leonardo] would undertake to paint a picture for our studio....he declines, you might at least induce him to paint a little picture of the Madonna, as sweet and holy as his own nature" (Wittkower and Wittkower 1963,35).... | |
 | Rudolf Wittkower, Margot Wittkower - 2006 - 460 דפים
...the Carmelite Vicar-General of Florence as follows: Your Reverence might find out if he [Leonardo] would undertake to paint a picture for our studio....he declines, you might at least induce him to paint a little picture of the Madonna, as sweet and holy as his own nature.82 Needless to say, Isabella was... | |
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