Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo ZuccheroVasari, Giorgio
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Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10): Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero
Vasari, Giorgio
Art, Italian; Artists -- Italy -- Biography
But such were the discomforts and fatigues that were endured in the work
by Daniello, who was rather feeble in constitution and melancholy than
otherwise, that not long afterwards there came upon him a cruel catarrh,
which much reduced him; indeed, whereas Daniello should have been happy
at having surmounted innumerable difficulties in so rare a casting, it
seemed that he never smiled again, no matter what good fortune might
befall him, and no long time passed before that catarrh, after an
illness of two days, robbed him of his life, on the 4th of April, 1566.
But before that, having foreseen his death, he confessed very devoutly,
and demanded all the Sacraments of the Church; and then, making his
will, he directed that his body should be buried in the new church that
had been begun at the Baths by Pius IV for the Carthusian Monks,
ordaining also that at his tomb, in that place, there should be set up
the statue of the Angel that he had formerly begun for the great portal
of the Castle. And of all this he gave the charge to the Florentine
Michele degli Alberti and to Feliciano of San Vito in the district of
Rome, making them executors of his will in those matters, and leaving
them two hundred crowns for the purpose. Which last wishes of Daniello's
the two of them executed with diligence and love, giving him honourable
burial in that place, according as he had directed. To the same men he
left all his property pertaining to art, moulds in gesso, models,
designs, and all the other materials and implements of his work;
wherefore they offered themselves to the Ambassador of France, saying
that they would deliver completely finished, within a fixed time, the
work of the horse and the figure of the King that was to go upon it.
And, in truth, both of them having practised many years under the
instruction and discipline of Daniello, the greatest things may be
expected from them.
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