Talk:Volpino Italiano

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Image is available here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Volpino04.jpg for volpino if anyone wants to write an article..

Sources?
The first two paragraphs of this WP article were apparently lifted from. Keesiewonder 20:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, indeed it was – please see below. The last of that stuff was removed by in January 2020, so it been in our article for almost fifteen years. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:42, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Michelangelo
We read (in the breed standard, for example) that Michelangelo had one of these dogs. But I can't find any documented evidence that he did. Biographies such as this and this, encyclopaedia entries such as this and this, our own article, all are silent on the subject. There is a small dog in the bottom left-hand corner of the The Crossing of the Red Sea in the Sistine Chapel; that painting is variously attributed to Ghirlandaio, Biagio d'Antonio and Cosimo Rosselli. It seems possible that a myth about Michelangelo may have arisen from reasoning along the lines of: there's a little dog in a painting in the Sistine Chapel – Michelangelo painted in the Sistine Chapel – so he must have painted that dog – so he must have owned a dog like that (well, OK, "reasoning" isn't really the right word). I propose removing this dubious claim unless solid independent reliable sources are found. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:10, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Axe it!  William Harris Canis lupis track.svg talk Canis lupis track.svg 13:57, 10 July 2020 (UTC)