Top, malvasia; bottom, Chasselas Golden.
"Manual of American Grape-Growing"
U. P. Hedrick
Francesco Barbiera; malvasia, Felsina Pittrice; Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses; Symonds, Renaissance in Italy-The Catholic Reaction; Willard, Modern Italian Art.
"A Text-Book of the History of Painting"
John C. Van Dyke
It is almost incredible that in a short life of not more than twenty-six or twenty-seven years, she could have executed the long list of works enumerated by malvasia, copied from a register kept by herself, amounting to upwards of one hundred and fifty pictures and portraits; and our astonishment is increased, when we are told by the same author, that many of them are pictures and altar-pieces of large size, and finished with a care that excludes all appearance of negligence and haste.
"Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)"
S. Spooner