In addition to the beautiful della Robbia altar-piece, so happy and holy--which Alfred Branconi boldly calls Luca--there is over the door Christ between two angels, a lovely example of the same art.

For a subtler, more modern and less religious mind, we have but to turn to the tabernacle by Mino, every inch of which is exquisite.
On the same wall is a curious thing.

In the eighteen-sixties died a Signor Lombardi, who owned certain reliefs which he believed to be Donatello's.

When his monument was made these ancient works were built into them and here and there gilded (for it is a wicked world and there was no taste at that time).

One's impulse is not to look at this encroaching piece of novelty at all; but one should resist that feeling, because, on examination, the Madonna and Children above Signor Lombardi's head become exceedingly interesting.