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In the Urbino studiolo, the mazzocchio is found in a south wall cabinet. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The primacy of this wall is evident from the centered, vertical alignment of the mazzocchio and the Order of the Garter, which extends upward to the fixing gaze of the goddess Rhetoric.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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In our book of drawings there are many figures, studies in perspective, birds, and animals, beautiful to a marvel, but the best of all is a mazzocchio drawn only with lines, so beautiful that nothing save the patience of Paolo could have executed it.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi Giorgio Vasari 1542
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The fighters are wearing a mazzocchio, the polyhedron-shaped hat worn by wealthy men in Uccello’s Florence.
The Eye & The Line, 2: God Is Math Quentin Hardy 2024
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