Looking at the Perseus and remembering Donatello, one realizes that what Cellini wanted was character.

He had temperament enough but no character.

Perseus is superb, commanding, distinguished, and one doesn't care a fig for it.
On entering the Palazzo Vecchio we come instantly to one of the most charming things in Florence--Verrocchio's fountain--which stands in the midst of the courtyard.

This adorable work--a little bronze Cupid struggling with a spouting dolphin--was made for Lorenzo de' Medici's country villa at Careggi and was brought here when the palazzo was refurnished for Francis I, Cosimo I's son and successor, and his bride, Joanna of Austria, in 1565.

Nothing could better illustrate the accomplishment and imaginative adaptability of the great craftsmen of the day than the two works of Verrocchio that we have now seen: the Christ and S.Thomas at Or San Michele, in Donatello and Michelozzo's niche, and this exquisite fountain splashing water so musically.