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Angelo and Raffaelle

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Michael Angelo criticised Raffaelle very severely.

“Such was the language of this false Italian [Angelo]:

One time he christened Raphael a Pygmalion,

Swore that his maidens were composed of stone;

Swore his expressions were like owls, so tame,

His drawings, like the lamest cripple, lame;

And as for composition, he had none.”


Peter Pindar: Lyric Odes, viii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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