And the locks of his reddish hair, crinkled by nature, but glued to his head by brilliantine, were treated broadly as they are in that Greek sculpture which the Mantuan painter never ceased to study, and which, if in its creator's purpose it represents but man, manages at least to extract from man's simple outlines such a variety of richness, borrowed, as it were, from the whole of animated nature, that a head of hair, by the glossy undulation and beak-like points of its curls, or in the overlaying of the florid triple diadem of its brushed tresses, can suggest at once a bunch of seaweed, a brood of fledgling doves, a bed of hyacinths and a serpent's writhing back.
Eta naturaz kiribildurik baina brillantinaz lekedaturik zeuzkàn ile gorrizko xerloak luzetara orraztuak ageri ziren, Mantuako margolariak etengabe ikertzen zuèn eskultura grekoan bezala, zeinak, sorkuntzan gizakia bakarrik badarabil ere irudigai eredutzat, bere forma bakunetatik hainbeste aberastasun agerrarazten baititu, hain ugariak eta hain natura bizitik maileguan hartuak iduri, non adats soil batek, bere izurdura leun eta kizkurren moko zorrotzengatik, edo bere txirikorden diadema hirukoitz eta loratuaren gainestaldurarengatik, aldi berean baitirudi gorbel-mulko, uso-habiako arrautza-multzo, hiazinto-sorta eta suge-eskutada.