Andrea senza errori, he was also called. What that means is that he never made a single mistake, when he was drawing.
Naturally I had to look that up too, whenever it was that I memorized it.
It saddens me to also happen to know that how Andrea died was during a plague, poor and neglected.
Although Titian died during a plague, as well. If in his case at the age of ninety-nine.
Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree, no more than ten minutes away in the pickup truck from where I am sitting right at this moment, on August eleventh, 1956.
I forget Pollock’s birthday, on the other hand. Although doubtless it is not something I ever knew.
I had also forgotten Renoir’s arthritis.
My own left shoulder has not troubled me at all lately, however.
Gauguin was one more painter who had syphilis.
Even if, had he lived during the Renaissance, he would have had to belong to the guild of pharmacists.
All painters did. This was because they compounded pigments.
David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
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