Because the servant he was sending to market was illiterate, Michelangelo illustrated the shopping lists — a herring, tortelli, two fennel soups, four anchovies and ‘a small quarter of a rough wine’ — with rushed (and all the more exquisite for it) caricatures in pen and ink.It's no Sistine Chapel ceiling, but a work of art worth preserving nonetheless.
(via Open Culture)
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