"Modenese" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... [112] Another Modenese, Antonio Begarelli, born in 1479, developed this art of the plasticatore, with quite as much pictorial impressiveness, and in a style of stricter science, than his predecessor Il Modanino. His masterpieces are the "Deposition from the Cross" in S. Francesco, and the "Pieta" in ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... a bon-mot that was made the other night at the serenata of "Peace in Europe" by Wall,[1] who is much in fashion, and a kind of Gondomar. Grossatesta, the Modenese minister, a very low fellow, with all the jackpuddinghood of an Italian, asked, "Mais qui est ce qui represente mon maitre?" Wall replied, "Mais, mon Dieu! L'abbe, ne scavez vous pas que ce n'est pas un opera boufon?" and here is another bon-mot ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole |
