
Niccolò della Casa, After Michelangelo Buonarroti, set of prints of the Last Judgement, 1548
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“M. Ruggiero replied: ‘[…] Michelangelo has not wanted to keep the common usage of painters who give wings to angels and make devils black, with tails and horns. I do not approve of that because you cannot easily distinguish between them?’.”
“Rispose M. Ruggiero: ‘[…] Non ha volute Michelagnolo servare il com mune uso d’i pittori di far gli angeli con l’ale et i demoni neri con la coda e corna lunghe, il che non mi piace, non si potendo conoscere agevolmente gli uni dagli altri’.”
Source
Gilio, Dialogue on the errors and abuses of painters (2018), 193; Gilio, Dialogo. Nel quale si ragiona degli errori e degli abusi de’pittori circa l’istorie. In: Due dialogi di M. Giouanni Andrea Gilio da Fabriano (1564), 83-84
Literature
Gilio 2018, 193, n. 326, fig. 19-22
Permanent Link
https://www.sacrima.eu/case/the-last-judgement-the-representation-of-angels-and-devils/