MCM Category: Diletta Gamberini

Leonardo da Vinci, Grotesque Head, ca. 1500, private collection (from Wikimedia Commmons:

Diletta Gamberini on failed artists in Italian renaissance poetry: Tifi Odasi´s Macaronea Fig. 2 Giovan Francesco Caroto, Redheaded youth holding a drawing (detail), ca. 1523. Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio (from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovan_francesco_caroto,_ritratto_di_giovane_con_disegno,_02_scarabocchio.jpg?uselang=it).