The art of the Pitti Palace : with a short history of the building of the palace, and its owners, and an appreciation of its treasures (1903)
Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs, 1866- · Boston : L.C. Page · leaf 372
genuine statue, representing some sacredsubject; he thought long of the Pieta, but finallydecided upon trying to portray the dead Abel, thatbeing a subject little chosen by others, and thereforemore original. The statue was ready to be exhibited at the Acad-emy in the September exhibition in 1842.… … <Q< I—I O CO HCA Pia, Q XH <; H CO <J W Q < CO Ubc Stan3a ^ella Stuta 293 pathetic nature of the subject, awakened a deep in-terest. The crowd around it increased from dayto day. But it began to be asserted, at first quietly,and soon more boldly and openly, that my statuewas an…
Palazzo Pitti · Painting
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