Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

90 Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages

Vasari reserves his highest coшmendation for Casati, called " е] Greco," " Ьу whom every otheг artist is sш­ passed in the grace and perfection as well as in the нпi­ versality of his productions." . . . " Nay, Michelaвgelo himseH, Iooking at them one day while Giovanni Vasari was present, remarked that the hour for the death of the art had arrived, for it was not possiЫe that better \VOI'k coulcl Ье seen ! " Michelangelo pl'Oved а prophet, in this case surely, for the decadence followed s,viftly.