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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER XVI
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Chief of the Botticellis is No.

85, "The Virgin and Child with divers Saints," in which there are certain annoying and restless elements.

One feels that in the accessories--the flooring, the curtains, and gilt--the painter was wasting his time, while the Child is too big.

Botticelli was seldom too happy with his babies.

But the face of the Saint in green and blue on the left is most exquisitely painted, and the Virgin has rather less troubled beauty than usual.


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