[A Wanderer in Florence by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookA Wanderer in Florence CHAPTER XIX 17/21
Certain of the statues are world-famous.
Here, for example, in Sala IX, is the bronze Minerva which was found near Arezzo in 1554 by Cosimo's workmen.
Here is the Chimaera, also from Arezzo in 1554, which Cellini restored for Cosimo and tells us about in his Autobiography.
Here is the superb Orator from Lake Trasimene, another of Cosimo's discoveries. In Sala X look at the bronze situla in an isolated glass case, of such a peacock blue as only centuries could give it.
Upstairs in Sala XVI are many more Greek and Roman bronzes, among which I noticed a faun with two pipes as being especially good; while the little room leading from it has some fine life-size heads, including a noble one of a horse, and the famous Idolino on its elaborate pedestal--a full-length Greek bronze from the earth of Pesaro, where it was found in 1530. The top floor is given to tapestries and embroideries.
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