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Portrait of a Carthusian, Petrus Christus, 1446
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“It is said that when Giotto was only a boy with Cimabue, he once painted a fly on the nose of a face that Cimabue had drawn, so naturally that the master returning to his work tried more than once to drive it away with his hand, thinking it was real. And I might tell you of many other jests played by Giotto, but of this enough.”
Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari
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“There is, or was, a picture of a Horse by him [Apelles], painted in a competition, by which he carried his appeal for judgement from mankind to the dumb quadrupeds; for perceiving that his rivals were getting the better of him by intrigue, he had some horses brought and showed them their pictures one by one; and the horses only began to neigh when they saw the horse painted by Apelles; and this always happened subsequently, showing it to be a sound test of artistic skill.”
Apelles - The Greatest Painter of Antiquity, John J Popovic
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“Rembrandt’s pupils used to paint gold coins on the floor of his studio and make them look so real that Rembrandt would stoop down to pick them up.”
Wittgenstein’s Mistress, David Markson
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Wile E. Coyote, Adventures of the Road Runner
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