Note 55 — Chapter V · DAWN OF THE GOLDEN AGE: BOTTICELLI AND LEONARDO DA VINCI
Reading edition
This error which has persisted since Vasari was finally corrected by the great restorer Cavenaghi in his report of the last restoration. Malaguzzi Valeri in Milano, Bergamo, 1906, pt. 2, p. 14, first advanced the correct view that the painting was done in tempera.