"Michael Angelo, in Rome.
"To Sandro Botticelli, at Florence."
(Gotti, ii. 32.)
This ugly, but marvellously-finished statue is now in the western corridor of the Uffizi, in Florence. See p. 107.
See p. 108.
The work is now in the first chapel on the right in the nave of the Basilica of Saint Peter's.
Now in the Accademia delle Belle Arti of Florence, where it was placed for its better preservation in 1831.
The Office of Works.
Documents, copies of which are to be found in "Gaye," vol. ii. pp. 454-464, go to prove that this sculptor was Agostino di Antonio di Duccio, who was born in 1418 and died in 1481. He was the author of the relief illustrating the life of S. Gemignano upon the façade of the Duomo at Modena, and some of the beautiful and delicate marble reliefs set in the polychromatic front of the Oratory of S. Bernardino at Perugia, and the fairy-like low relief (bassissimi rilievi) panels that decorate the interior of the temple of Malatesta at Rimini.
The Madonna and Child in the church of Notre Dame at Bruges, identified as this work, is in marble. Vasari also states that the work for the Moscheroni, Merchants of Bruges, was a bronze, but both accounts were written fifty years after the event. Albert Dürer saw this work in the church and mentions it as a marble statue in his "Netherlands Diary," 1520-21.