[66] Palazzo Pitti.
[67] Robert de la Condamine, The Upper Garden.
[68] In the Bibliothèque de l’Arsénal, Paris.
[69] British Museum.
[70] Dante.
[71] In France at the same period it was very usual to place a ‘fleur-de-lys’ in the Madonna’s hand. For instance, the beautiful statuette in silver gilt of the early fourteenth century, now in the Louvre, carries a ‘fleur-de-lys’ of crystal in the right hand.
[72] The Prado, Madrid.
[73] Private apartments, Pitti Palace, Florence.
[74] Uffizi, Florence.
[75] An exception is the Assumption by Fungai in the Belle Arti of Siena, where white roses and red carnations fill the tomb. The prejudice appears to have been against the red rose.