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Title: Florence and her treasures
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and other objects, with architectural frag-ments taken from various convents and destroyed build-ings, representing almost every phase of Tuscan art instone from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.The second hall, opening out from this, possesses someof the finest works of the Tuscan sculptors, and almostevery object preserved in this room is worthy of closeattention. Opposite the entrance is the extremelybeautiful Chimney-piece (No. 112) from the Roselli delTurco Palace, one of the masterpieces of Benedetto daRovezzano, which has even given the name of DelCamino to the whole room. By the same master arealso the two elaborate marble niches with their massesof ornamentation from the Palazzo Cepparelli, which.are fixed on either side of the entrance. Benedetto daRovezzano, too, executed the series of five Reliefs (Nos.101-105), illustrating the history of San Giovanni Gual-berto, which were intended for the tomb of the founderof the Vallombrosan Order. Although terribly mutilated
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ST. GEORGEFrom the marble statue by Dana telle in the Museo Nazionale /• 243 J> MUSEO NAZIONALE 243 by the Spanish soldiery in 1530, these little scenes inmarble are most remarkable for their exquisite finish andnumerous figures. The hall contains some importantworks by Michelangelo. Near the mantle-shelf is hisBust of Brutus (No. in), an unfinished but popularwork of the master. The following works by Michel-angelo are also in this room: (No. 124), Mask of aFaun, executed at the age of fifteen, when the youngsculptor was studying from the antique in the historicgardens of the great Lorenzo dei Medici at San Marco ;(No. 128), The Drunken Bacchus, likewise a youthfulwork full of lively grace, undertaken for Jacopo Galli atRome between the years 1496 and 1501 ; (No. 224), anunfinished David; (No. 123), the unfinished tondo of theVirgin and Child with the Baptist in high-relief, of greatsweetness and power, also an early work. Near this lastis a small copy in marble of the celebrate

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