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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER VIII
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At the Accademia, if a plebiscite were taken, there is little doubt but that Botticelli's "Primavera" would win.

At the Pitti I personally would name Giorgione's "Concert" without any hesitation at all; but probably the public vote would go to Raphael's "Madonna della Sedia".

But the Uffizi?
Here we are amid such wealth of masterpieces, and yet when one comes to pass them in review in memory none stands out as those other two I have named.

Perhaps Botticelli would win again, with his "Birth of Venus".

Were the Leonardo finished ...


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