SUM TANTO STUDIO NATURAM IMITATUS ET ARTE DUM PINGO RERUM QUAE CREAT ILLA PARENS; HAEC UT SAEPE QUIDEM NON PICTA PUTAVERIT A ME, A SE CREDIDERIT SED GENERATA MAGIS. In these same times lived Cosme, also of Ferrara. Works by his hand that are to be seen are a chapel in S. Domenico in the said city, and two folding-doors that close the organ in the Duomo. This man was better as a draughtsman than as a painter; indeed, from what I have been able to gather, he does not seem to have painted much. [Illustration: THE MADONNA ENTHRONED (_After the tempera panel by =Cosme= [Cosimo Tura]. Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 86_) _Hanfstaengl_] FOOTNOTES: [17] This Life appears only in Vasari's first edition. ANTONIO AND BERNARDO ROSSELLINO LIVES OF ANTONIO ROSSELLINO, SCULPTOR OF FLORENCE [_ROSSELLINO DAL PROCONSOLO_] AND BERNARDO, HIS BROTHER It has ever been a truly laudable and virtuous thing to be modest and to be adorned with that gentleness and those rare qualities that are easily recognized in the honourable actions of the sculptor Antonio Rossellino, who put so much grace into his art that he was esteemed by all who knew him as something much more than man, and adored almost as a saint, for those supreme virtues that were united to his talent. Antonio was called Rossellino dal Proconsolo, because he ever had his shop in a part of Florence called by that name. He showed such sweetness and delicacy in his works, with a finish and a refinement so perfect, that his manner may be rightly called the true one and truly modern.