Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKIVI (ll a). SOUL AGES COLL FLORENTINE. IS. C£! D JOKESTECIT 18/ PEDESTAL. BRONZE. No. 568—1865. THIS is a very beautiful object, and reasonably believed to be modelledafter a design by Donatello. It is of the best period of Florentine artin the fifteenth century. One of the highest authorities, Mr. J. C. Robin-son, has no hesitation in saying that it can scarcely be the work of a lesspowerful hand than Donatellos. The shape is quadrangular, and the panels contain alter
Examples of the works of art in the Museum and of the decorations of the building, with brief descriptions . SKIVI (ll a). SOUL AGES COLL FLORENTINE. IS. C£! D JOKESTECIT 18/ PEDESTAL. BRONZE. No. 568—1865. THIS is a very beautiful object, and reasonably believed to be modelledafter a design by Donatello. It is of the best period of Florentine artin the fifteenth century. One of the highest authorities, Mr. J. C. Robin-son, has no hesitation in saying that it can scarcely be the work of a lesspowerful hand than Donatellos. The shape is quadrangular, and the panels contain alternately figuresof fauns and bacchantes. The attitudes are varied, but all are full ofenergy and vigour. A delicate upright ornament of flowers fills smallpanels where the corners are cut away, and a bold scroll occupies thelowest moulding at the foot. The sentiment of the design is clearlyderived from the antique, rendered in the masterly but characteristicstyle of the last half of the fifteenth century. Some similar examples areknown: one, in the possession of Mr. Fortnum. This cam
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