Xi. To Giorgio Vasari. Poem by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Xi. To Giorgio Vasari.
ON THE LIVES OF THE PAINTERS.
Se con lo stile.
With pencil and with palette hitherto
You made your art high Nature's paragon;
Nay more, from Nature her own prize you won,
Making what she made fair more fair to view.
Now that your learnéd hand with labour new
Of pen and ink a worthier work hath done,
What erst you lacked, what still remained her own,
The power of giving life, is gained for you.
If men in any age with Nature vied
In beauteous workmanship, they had to yield
When to the fated end years brought their name.
You, reilluming memories that died,
In spite of Time and Nature have revealed
For them and for yourself eternal fame.
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Michelangelo Buonarroti - Rime 277. Se con lo stile o coi colori avete Se con lo stile o coi colori avete alla natura pareggiato l’arte, anzi a quella scemato il pregio in parte, che ’l bel di lei più bello a noi rendete, poi che con dotta man posto vi sete5 a più degno lavoro, a vergar carte, quel che vi manca, a lei di pregio in parte, nel dar vita ad altrui, tutta togliete. Che se secolo alcuno omai contese in far bell’opre, almen cedale, poi10 che convien c’al prescritto fine arrive. Or le memorie altrui, già spente, accese tornando, fate or che fien quelle e voi malgrado d’esse, etternalmente vive.