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lives of the artists.


And this shall be the end of the above written Lives of the various artists of Lombardy.[1]


    of this artist, proves that he was not acquainted with them, and had been but insufficiently informed by those on whom he had relied for his intelligence. In the present day Bernardino receives full justice; nay, some may think he has obtained rather more than his deserts, since his works have in certain instances been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. See Passavant, loc. cit., where many of Vasari’s omissions are supplied.

  1. Among the works of Luino, which have been attributed, as above remarked, to Leonardo da Vinci, Förster enumerates the Vanity and Modesty, in the Sciarra-Colonna Palace in Rome. The daughter of Herodias, with the head of the Baptist, in the Tribune of the Uffizj at Florence, and though last mentioned, not least interesting to ourselves, the Christ Disputing with the Doctors in our own National Gallery. See German Translation of Vasari, vol. iv. p. 447, note.


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