Opposite the door are Bacchus and Ampelos, superbly pagan, while a sleeping Cupid is most lovely.

Among the various fine heads is one of Cicero, of an Unknown--No.

377--and of Homer in bronze (called by the photographers Aristophanes).

But each thing in turn is almost the best.

The trouble is that the Uffizi is so vast, and the Renaissance seems to be so eminently the only proper study of mankind when one is here, that to attune oneself to the enjoyment of antique sculpture needs a special effort which not all are ready to make.
In the centre of the next room is the punctual Hermaphrodite without which no large Continental gallery is complete.