131:' (laying on of paint) in the body portion between the bust and the hands. He stated that the picture was more beautiful than the Paris one, the compactness, the beauty of the eye drawing, which he says is the principal portion done by Leonardo together with the line of the mouth, mark it as a gem in the art world.
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