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"I know only Venice--the Greek and the Venetian types. But I have heard
that the Michelangelo was in himself a type?"
"He was a prophet," the Veronese answered reverently, "like the great
Florentine--a seer of visions; but at Rome only one understands why he
was born. He was a maker, creating mighty meanings under formlessness.
His great shapes seem each a mystery, wrestling with a message."
"I had thought there was none who equaled him in form--that he was even
as a sculptor in his painting."
"And it was even so. When I spake of 'formlessness' it was not the less,
but the more; as if, _before the visions had taken mortal shape, he,
being greater than men, saw them as spirits_."
"Never before have I talked with one who knew this master," said
Girolamo, "and it is a feast."
"Nay, I knew him not, for it was not easy to get speech with him, nor a
favor a young man might crave. But once I saw him at his work in San
Pietro, where he wrought most furiously and would take no payment--'for
the good of his soul,' he said, that he might end his life with a pious
work.


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