Capitolo 84
him time to clean his/her pencils neither to mix his/her colours. The name of
this expeditious worker was the avarice.
Not away from this artist I saw another of a rather different nature,
who was dressed in the habit of a Dutch, and known by the name of
Industry. Its figures were worked marvelously. If he drew the
a man's portraiture, he didn't omit an only hair in his/her face; if
the figure of a ship there was not a rope among the equipment that
escapes him/it. He had likewise hung a great part of the wall with
night-pieces that are seemed to appear from the candles that
you/he/she was illuminated above in a lot of parts of them; and it was inflamed so that
the light of the sun that accidentally fell on them, that for first the sight
I was able scarce ancestor that shouts "Fire!"
The five preceding artists were the most considerable on this side
the gallery; there were indeed many others to that I didn't have time
you look in. However, one of their self could not abstain observing that
it was very busy in to retouch the most excellent pieces, although he produced anybody
originals of his really. Its pencil increased every characteristic that was
before it made to pay too much, loaded every defect, and it poisoned every colour
it touched. Although this worker did so a lot of damage on the side of
the living one, he never turned his/her eye toward that of the corpse. His
name was the envy.
Having taken a superficial perspective of a side of the gallery, I turned
me to what was filled by the jobs of those great masters
that was dead; when I immediately imagined me being standing first a
crowd of spectators and thousand of eyes that repute me to
once: for all in front of me appeared as men and women that me
it almost forgot them they were drawn back. The portraits of Raphael were standing in the one
oars, Titian in another, Guido Rheni is a bystander. A part of the
wall was peopled from Hannabal Carrache, another of Correggio and
another of Rubens. To be short, was not a great master among
the corpse who had not contributed to the embellishment of this side