Below: Figure 5; Right: Figure 6
ure 4], as you can see on a page where he has immortalized a list of very humble foods���spinach, anchovies,
herring, fennel soup���by writing their names down and
then drawing each of them in sequence. Three menus?
A shopping list for an illiterate assistant? Hard to tell.
Most of all, I glimpsed his inner life. He was a man of
sharp and sometimes bitter ironies. An elaborate drawing of a Madonna and child [Figure 5] is inscribed with a
comic love poem that begins, ���You have a face sweeter
than grape juice, and it looks like a snail has passed over
it���; and on a sketch of the Annunciation [Figure 6], he
has chosen the spot where the Angel���s message to the
Virgin Mary is usually displayed for writing a memo reminding himself to pay his assistant Pasquino for fetching a load of wood.
HYLAND
