Parmigianino
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"... to investigate the subtleties of art, began to portray himself one day, looking in a mirror barbers, this' half round. In doing that, seeing those oddities that makes Ritondo mirror ... ... He was willing to counterfeit everything to his whim. Hence, make a ball made of wood on a lathe, and the currency to make it half round and of similar size in the mirror, in that he began with great art to counterfeit everything he saw himself in the mirror and particularly ... ... And because all things that grow in the mirror they draw near, and those who fall away, I did a hand drawing a little large, as shown in the mirror, so beautiful that it seemed very true, and because Francis was beautiful air et his face and looks very nice and d'Angelo rather than a man, his likeness appeared in that ball thing divine '
(Life of painter Francesco Mazzuoli parmesan, Giorgio Vasari)
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