Of this glorious S.George more will be said later.

But I may remark now that in its place here it instantly proves the modernity and realistic vigour of its sculptor.

Fine though they be, all the other statues of this building are conventional; they carry on a tradition of religious sculpture such as Niccolo Pisano respected, many years earlier, when he worked at the Pisan pulpit.

But Donatello's S.George is new and is as beautiful as a Greek god, with something of real human life added.
Donatello (with Michelozzo) also made the exquisite border of the niche in the Via Calzaioli facade, in which Christ and S.Thomas now stand.

He was also to have made the figures (for the Merchants' Guild) but was busy elsewhere, and they fell to Verrocchio, of whom also we shall have much to see and say at the Bargello, and to my mind they are the most beautiful of all.