Note 244 — Chapter XV · (XXIX.)
Louisa S. Maclehose translation
A modern would say that if the work be really inlaid, it should look like inlaid work, and not like something else. In the Italy of Vasari’s day however, as we have seen, painting had so thoroughly got the upper hand, that to ape the nobler art would seem a legitimate ambition for the mosaicist.