Identifier: ofitalyhumour00wernrich (find matches)
Title: The humour of Italy;
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Werner, Alice, 1859-1935 Faldi, Arturo, 1856-
Subjects: Italian wit and humor
Publisher: London, W. Scott ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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expectme to say that Buffalmacco was so skilled and perfect amaster as to be able to teach the art of painting in itsgreatest refinements to an ape which the Bishop of Arezzokept for his pastime; but I shall certainly tell you thatBuffalmacco was he who discovered that noble and ever-to-be-remembered and ever-to-be-praised invention of temperingcolours, not with water from the well, but with the mostbrilliant white wine that could ever be produced by the bestshoots of the most renowned vines on the Florentine hills.Before Buffalmacco had made this discovery, he used toexecute paintings which—you may rely upon it—wereexactly like your own face; that is to say, pale, washed-out,and mouldy-looking; and in many of them I fancy Irecognise my own portrait, with a face like a mummy, thin,dry, hollow-cheeked, worn to a shadow, and coloured with acertain hue like that of bread-crust or a quince baked in theoven, and so melancholy as to make people weep who were i See note at end of volume.
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PULCINELLA. pulcinellas duel. 49 quite ready to laugh. But when this great master of allmasters began to use wine with his colours— His painted saints on the wall he disclosesWith fresh, blooming faces, all milk and roses ! and they were all the right sort of folk—jovial, cheerful,wholesome, and good-tempered, so that people talked aboutthem even as far as the gates of Paris, and the ladies ofFaenza—certain knowing nuns, whose convent stood wherethe lower fort is now—had more faith in Buffalmacco thanin all the Apelleses and Protogeneses who were in creditwith the ancient Greeks. Now, what do I mean by all thisscreed of nonsense ? I mean to draw the conclusion, thatsince you are so kind as to draw the illustrations to that bookof mine, you will most assuredly come to grief unless youmix your colours with Vernaccia or some other good wine,and you will do no work that is worth looking at. Andsince it is not right that you should be at any expense inconsequence of this work of mi

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