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influence as well as bodies. That 
M. Angelo, when a boy, copied 
with a pen Michael Wolgemuth’s 
print of the Temptation of St. An- 
tony, and bought fish in the market 
to colour the devils, may be believ- 
ed ; but it requires the credulity of 
Wagenseil to suppose that he could 
want any thing of Albert Durer, 
when he was a man. The legend 
contradicts itself ; for who ever be- 
fore heard of the bronzes of Albert 
Durer ?, 
MICHAEL ANGELO. 
M. Angelo, punctilious and 
haughty to princes, was gentle and 
even submissive to inferior artists. 
Gulielmo Bugiardini, a man of 
‘tiney talents and much conceit, bad: 
been applied to by Meffer Otta- 
viano de Medici to paint the por- 
trait of M. Angelo for him. Bugi- 
ardini; familiar with M. Angelo; 
obtained his consent. He sat to 
him: desired to rise after a sitting 
of two hours; and perceiving at 
the first glance the incorrectness of 
the outline, What the devil, said 
he, have you been doing? You 
have shoved one of the eyes into the 
temples ; pray look at it. Gulielmo, 
after repeatedly looking at the pic- 
ture and theoriginal, at last replied, 
with much gravity, I cannot see it ; 
but pray sit down and let us exa- 
mine again. M. Angelo, who knew 
where the cause of the blunder lay, 
sat down again, and patiently sub- 
mitting to a long second inspection, 
was at last peremptorily told that 
the copy was correct. If that be 
the case, said he, nature has com- 
mitted a mistake ; go you on, and 
follow the dictates of your art. 
There exists now at Holkham, 
among the pictures collected by the 
late lord Leicester, and in the pos- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1795. 
session of Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, 
the only copy ever made of the 
whole composition of the celebrated 
Cartoon of Pisa. It is a small cil- 
picture in chiaroscuro, and the per- 
formance of Bastiano de St. Gallo, 
surnamed Aristotile, from his learn- 
ed or verbose descants on that sur- 
prising work. It was painted at the 
desire of Vasari, and trasmitted to 
Francis I. by Bold Giovio, bishop 
of Nocera. How it could escape 
the eyes of the French and English 
connoisseurs or artists, who hud ace 
cess to the collections, of which it 
constituted the chief ornament, is a 
mystery, which, for the honour of 
the art, none can wish to une 
ravel, 
Nothing is trifling in the history , 
of gemius. The following strange 
incident, extracted from the life of 
M. Angelo, written by his pupil, 
or rather attendant, Ascanio Con- 
divi, deserves notice, because it is 
related from the month of M. An- 
gelo himself, 
Some time after the death of Lo- 
renzo de Medici, Cardiere, a young 
improvisatore, entertained by his son 
Piero, secretlyinformed M. Angelo, 
with whom he lived in habits of 
friendship, that Lorenzo de Medici 
had appeared to him in a ragged 
pall of black over his naked body, 
and commanded him to announce 
to his son, thatin a short time he 
should bedriven into exile and*re- 
turn no more. M. Angelo exbort- 
ed him to execute the commands of 
the vision; but Cardiere, aware of 
the haughty insolent temperof Piero, 
forbore to follow his advice. Some 
morning after this, whilst M. An- 
‘gelo was busy in the cortile of the 
palace, Cardiere, terrified and pale, 
comes again, and relates, that the 
night before, when yet awake, Lo- 
renzo 
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