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Title: Verocchio
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cruttwell, Maud
Subjects: Verrocchio, Andrea del, 1435?-1488
Publisher: London : Duckworth New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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f the Minerva must have been executed in theFlorence bottega, and have been therefore well known to theFlorentines. It was the time of his greatest popularity andinfluence, and nothing could be more natural than that onthe occasion of a similar death the commission for a similarmonument should have been given. The description in the Inventory is somewhat confused,but it allows us to reconstruct with a certain precision theoriginal form of the Monument, of which the Barge! lorelief formed the principal part. It is evident that it wasthe front panel of the Sarcophagus, which was probablyintended to be half embedded in the wall, since theguglie and balls upon it were two and not four. TheMedallion with the portrait of the deceased lady mustcertainly have been inserted in the wall above, but whetherthe marble busts rested on the corners of the Sarcophagus,or were placed on either side of the Medallion, is not soeasy to determine. With the inaccuracy characteristic of the writings on XXXVI
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A Una ri, Florence TOMB OF TARTAGNI. BY FRANCESCO DI SIMONES. DOMENICO, FLORENCE Face p. 153 THE T0RNABU0N1 RELIEF 153 this subject, the latter part of the decoration, so clearlyspecified in the Medicean Inventory as two marble headswith busts, have been confused with the three figures ofVirtues mentioned by Vasari as forming part of theMinerva Monument, and with curious inexactness iden-tified with four marble statuettes of coarse and feebleworkmanship in the collection of Madame Andre, Paris,which in spite of their slovenly handling are on thisaccount also attributed to Verrocchio. Although there isno reason for connecting these sculptures with the Strozzirelief, yet they are of interest as being by the same hand,and by their analogy with another signed work enablingus to ascertain with approximate certainty who was theartist. These statuettes represent seated figures of Faith, Hope,Charity and Justice. They measure 50 centimetres inheight, and are of white Carrara marble, with the

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