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The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

CHAPTER XIII
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The last two sentences are highly significant:-- "Most Reverend Monsignor,--If a plan has divers parts, those which are of one type in respect to quality and quantity have to be decorated in the same way and the same fashion.

The like is true of their counterparts.

But when the plan changes form entirely, it is not only allowable, but necessary, to change the decorative appurtenances, as also with their counterparts.

The intermediate parts are always free, left to their own bent.

The nose, which stands in the middle of the forehead, is not bound to correspond with either of the eyes; but one hand must balance the other, and one eye be like its fellow.


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