This parallel was suggested by Prof. David Ekserdjian on the BBC Radio 4 discussion programme In Our Time, episode "Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artist" (27 May 2010, circa 37 minutes in). Quote: "That's an amazing reference! Because, OK, it's an inn sign rather than a formal painting, but this is someone doing a Caravaggio subject decades and decades before Caravaggio."
Giorgio Vasari (1568). «Life of Franciabigio». Lives of the Artists. Արխիվացված է օրիգինալից 2013 թ․ դեկտեմբերի 27-ին. Վերցված է 2012 թ․ փետրվարի 17-ին. «One of Francia's disciples was his brother Agnolo, who died after having painted a frieze that is in the cloister of S. Pancrazio, and a few other works. The same Agnolo painted for the perfumer Ciano, an eccentric man, but respected after his kind, a sign for his shop, containing a gipsy woman telling the fortune of a lady in a very graceful manner, which was the idea of Ciano, and not without mystic meaning.»
Giorgio Vasari (1568). «Life of Franciabigio». Lives of the Artists. Արխիվացված է օրիգինալից 2013 թ․ դեկտեմբերի 27-ին. Վերցված է 2012 թ․ փետրվարի 17-ին. «One of Francia's disciples was his brother Agnolo, who died after having painted a frieze that is in the cloister of S. Pancrazio, and a few other works. The same Agnolo painted for the perfumer Ciano, an eccentric man, but respected after his kind, a sign for his shop, containing a gipsy woman telling the fortune of a lady in a very graceful manner, which was the idea of Ciano, and not without mystic meaning.»
