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196 Confronting ImagesImage not availableFIG 7 Ugo da Carpi, Veronica Between Saints Peter and Paul, c. 1524–27.Tempera and charcoal on canvas. Vatican, Basilica of Saint Peter.of his painting by inscribing between the feet of Saint Paul the poeticrule—in the original sense of the word—that he gave himself for thisparticular work: per vgo / da carpi intaiatore / fata senza / penello. . . Which signifies two things: that the painted work is the workof an engraver; and that it was executed without the aid of any brushwhatever.What does this mean? That the image was produced by the soleapplication of cloth soaked with paint, without the intervention offingers or brushes, and that the shadows were simply gone over withthe powder of carboncino, or charcoal. Such a procedure—in any case,