“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”

Letter to Rene Lui Descartes XIV (6 March 1540) As quoted in Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror (1890) by George Augustus Lofton, p. 432.

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Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564

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