Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . the Loggetta, and the Minerva, which isthe farthest towards the left, or south. If,in addition to these we could give the othertwo statues of the series, the lovely Madonnagroup in terra-cotta which this same Log-getta holds, like a shrine, the Bacchus ofthe National Museum of Florence, the in the Cathedral of Florence, and theSt. Julian carved above the door of thechurch dedicated to him in Venice, weshould note in them the same restrained andyet powerful modelling that is seen in theApollo. There are other noble Madonnas
Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... . the Loggetta, and the Minerva, which isthe farthest towards the left, or south. If,in addition to these we could give the othertwo statues of the series, the lovely Madonnagroup in terra-cotta which this same Log-getta holds, like a shrine, the Bacchus ofthe National Museum of Florence, the in the Cathedral of Florence, and theSt. Julian carved above the door of thechurch dedicated to him in Venice, weshould note in them the same restrained andyet powerful modelling that is seen in theApollo. There are other noble Madonnas,in Venice and in Rome. The huge statuesat the head of the great out-of-door stairs ina courtyard of the Doges Palace in Venice,the Neptune and the Mars which give thatbeautiful ^perron the name of The GiantsStairs, are indeed conceived in a differentspirit. In them it seems as if something ofthe fire and fury of Michelangelo inspiredtheir creator, and the yielding to this in-spiration has caused that loss of charmwhich comes always when a man is trying[108].
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