. Verocchio. edin the Palazzo at the top of the stairs where was la catena,to his exceeding Vasari did not know, or had for-gotten, that the statue was originally executed for one ofthe Medici, probably Piero, to decorate the Villa of Careggi,and that it was only later bought by the Signoria andremoved to the Palazzo Vecchio. The first entry inTommasos Inventory refers to this work : Per un davittee la testa dj ghulia, with the marginal note per aCharegj. It was sold by Lorenzo and Giuliano in 1476to the Signoria for the price of 150 broad florins, and thedate mentioned in the docume
. Verocchio. edin the Palazzo at the top of the stairs where was la catena,to his exceeding Vasari did not know, or had for-gotten, that the statue was originally executed for one ofthe Medici, probably Piero, to decorate the Villa of Careggi,and that it was only later bought by the Signoria andremoved to the Palazzo Vecchio. The first entry inTommasos Inventory refers to this work : Per un davittee la testa dj ghulia, with the marginal note per aCharegj. It was sold by Lorenzo and Giuliano in 1476to the Signoria for the price of 150 broad florins, and thedate mentioned in the document of payment has been mis-taken by some of the earlier writers for that of its execution. * In the Collection of M. Gustave Dreyfus, Paris, is a small bronzeplaque representing the Judgment of Paris, which from the resem-blance of treatment to the group above mentioned in the Discord —the youth caressing the female with the jealous protector in the middledistance—must be classed as of the same period. XI. Alinari, Florence DAVID. BARGELLO, FLORENCE Face p. 64 EARLY SCULPTURE 65 It was bought by the Signoria, as the document of purchasestates, to decorate and beautify their magnificent Palace,1(Doc. vi.), and was placed, as Vasari says, at the entranceof the Sala dell1 Orologio, then called La Catena. TheHall, since the clock from which it took its name no longer,exists, is now called the Sala del Giglio from the Stemmaof Florence. The original pedestal still remains to showthe spot, but is now surmounted by a bust of the GrandDuke—Eerdinand I. Here the statue with_drajffJi-IwjQrd,_guarded the entrance to the tower, the slayer of the Philis-tine symbolising, as did also the Judith, so often sculp-tured and painted by Florentine artists^ the liberty of theFlorentine Republic. It stood here until the seventeenthcentury, when it was removed to make way for the bust andplaced in the Guardaroba, where it remained until its trans-ference to the Gallery of the Uffizi in 1777. Su
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