MAFFEI, Raffaele (Volterranus) ( 1451-1522 )

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Humaniste et écrivain italien

PEACHAM, Henry, The Gentlemans Exercise. Or, An exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of Beasts in their true Portraitures : as also the making of all kinds of colours, to be used in Limning, Painting, Tricking, and Blazon of Coates, and Armes, with divers other most delightfull and pleasurable observations, for all young Gentlemen and others. As also Serving for the necessary use and generall benefit of divers Trades-men and Artificers, as namely Painters, Ioners, Free-Masons, Cutters and Carvers, &c. for the farther gracing, beautifying, and garnishing of all their absolute and worthy pieces, either for Borders, Architects, or Columnes, &c., London, J. Legat, 1634.

The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap. II, A comparison betweene the Painters of old times, and the latter, the great value and prices of Pictures, &c, p. 5

Quotation

Pyreicus (as Volaterane saith) was onely famous for counterfeiting all base things as earthen pitchers, a scullery, Rogues together by the eares, swine tumbling in the mire, &c. whereupon he was sirnamed Rupographus. {That is Painter of base things.}

The First Booke of Drawing and Limning, Chap. II, A comparison betweene the Painters of old times, and the latter, the great value and prices of Pictures, &c, p. 5