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| Mars and Venus (1530), pen and ink The work that secured Rosso an invitation to the court of France. |
"Nor could he in this life have obtained greater dignity, honor, or rank, since he was highly regarded and esteemed above everyone else in his craft by such a great monarch as the king of France. And in truth, the merits of Rosso were such that if Fortune had brought him any less, she would have done him a grave wrong."
---Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Italian painter, writer and historian
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