Chips
Nicholas Penny, 18 March 1982
Michelangelo and the Language of Art
by David Summers.
Princeton, 626 pp., £26.50, February 1981,0 691 03957 7 Show More
by David Summers.
Princeton, 626 pp., £26.50, February 1981,
Bernini in France: An Episode in 17th-Century History
by Cecil Gould.
Weidenfeld, 158 pp., £12.95, March 1982,0 297 77944 3 Show More
by Cecil Gould.
Weidenfeld, 158 pp., £12.95, March 1982,
“... When, in the early hours, Michelangelo completed carving his name on the band which passes between the breasts of the Virgin in his first Pieta (the one now behind bullet-proof perspex in St Peter’s), he was surprised by a nun who took him for an intruder. Reassured, she begged for some marble chips, which the sculptor, touched, gave her. In return, she made him a frittata, which he ate on the spot ... ”