A wanderer in Florence : with thirty-eight reproductions from paintings and sculputre (1922)
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 238
act that the Florentines, who had spent so much oftheir time under tyrants and so much of their blood in re-sisting them, were captivated by the idea of this striplingfreeing his compatriots from Goliath and the Philistines.David, as I have said in my remarks on the Piazza dellaSignoria, stood to… … MADONNA AND CHILD FROM THE RELIEF BY VERROCCHIO IN THE BARGELLO THE DAVIDS 187 stance that his task was a singularly light one, since henever came to close quarters with his antagonist at all andhad the Lord of Hosts on his side. A David of mythol-ogy, Perseus, another Florentine hero, a stripling…
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