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Updated: May 10, 2025
Vasari's simple description is best: "Una donna nuda che dorme, tanto bella che pare viva, insieme con altre figure." Moritz Thausing's Albrecht Dürer, Zweiter Band, p. 14. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Life and Times of Titian, vol. i. p. 212.
THAUSING'S "Albert Duerer," vol. ii., p. 318. The idea of a canon for human proportions has proved a great stumbling-block for so-called classical or academic artists. It is usually taken to mean an absolutely right or harmonious proportion, any deviation from which cannot fail to result in a diminution of beauty.
These considerations when apprehended will, I believe, suffice to dispel both prejudice and misconception in regard to this matter; and we shall find in Professor Thausing's remarks relative to the treatment of the "female form divine" in this engraving no additional reason for considering it a comparatively early work.
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