[i]Here he had numerous opportunities to paint portraits in which he was marvelously successful and had few equals. He painted Cavaliers and Ladies of our city and all of them so lifelike and invested with a certain air, that . . . . one could sense the spirit of their nobility.[/i]
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- Raffaele Soprani, Le vite de pittori, scoltori, et architetti genovesi, 1674, on A...
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