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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XIV
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Everything here is good and worth examination.

Among the outstanding things is a plaquette, No.

393, a Satyr and a Bacchante, attributed to Donatello, under the title "Allegory of Spring," which is the work of a master and a very riot of mythological imagery.

The neighbouring plaquettes, many of them of the school of Donatello, are all beautiful.
We now find the sixth salon, to see Verrocchio's David, of which I have already spoken.

This wholly charming boy, a little nearer life perhaps than Donatello's, although not quite so radiantly distinguished, illustrates the association of Verrocchio and Leonardo as clearly as any of the paintings do; for the head is sheer Leonardo.


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