He would not make so much as a single brushstroke without having the model before him.
Baroque painter
Reported by Giovanni Pietro Bellori in 'Le Vite de' Pittori, Scultori et Architetti Moderni'
c. 1672 (Bellori's writing about Caravaggio's practice)
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