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A Wanderer in Florence

CHAPTER IX
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649, and, perhaps above all, the Moroni, No.

386, black against grey.

There is also Paolo Veronese's "Holy Family with S.Catherine," superbly masterly and golden but suggesting the Rialto rather than Nazareth.
One picture gives the next room, the Sala di Michelangelo, its name; but entering from the Venetian room we come first on the right to a very well-known Lippo Lippi, copied in every picture shop in Florence: No.

1307, a Madonna and two Children.

Few pictures are so beset by delighted observers, but apart from the perfection of it as an early painting, leaving nothing to later dexterity, its appeal to me is weak.


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