The Diorama of Life, Or the Macrocosm and Microcosm Displayed: Characteristic Sketches and Anecdotes of Men and Things (Classic Reprint)

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Tms artist was so handsome, that Lewis Carracci made use of him na'bis model when he had to paint an angel.' Guido' 5 ideas of beauty were taken from one of the daughters in the celebrated ancient statue of Niobe. He was one day applied to by a painter to know how he had acquired his ideas of beauty. A day was fixed, and the painter came to see him, and found him sitting with his colour-grinder, one of the ugliest men that ever was seen, and painting the most exquisitely beautiful female head. See, said he, when a painter has his imagination properly stored with ideas of beauty, he has no occasion for any other Model than that which you now see.

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