noblequality to which leaddoes not aspire. More-over, in many cases, thefigures have obviouslybeen modeled with acertain roughness, ap-propriate tolead, whichwould be coarse inbronze. Compare, forexample, the bronzeCupid, by Donatello,which is in the NationalMuseum at Florence,with the lead… … would soon be blurred by the battery of time and gentlyeffaced by lichens. Impossible, too, in lead is that exquisitedelicacy of expression which Donatello gave to his bronze,the impish gaiety which a surface defect would destroy. It can not be said of the Melbourne boys that they lackmovement, but…
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