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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XI
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709; the Signora Puliciani and her husband, No.

699; a rather crudely coloured Rubens--"Venus and Adonis"-- No.

812; the same artist's "Three Graces," in monochrome, very naked; and some quaint portraits by Lucas Cranach.
But no doubt to many persons the most enchaining picture here is the Medusa's head, which used to be called a Leonardo and quite satisfied Ruskin of its genuineness, but is now attributed to the Flemish school.

The head, at any rate, would seem to be very similar to that of which Vasari speaks, painted by Leonardo for a peasant, but retained by his father.

Time has dealt hardly with the paint, and one has to study minutely before Medusa's horrors are visible.


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