Word: bargello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed, set out for Paris and from Venice, Giorgione's The Tempest and Mantegna...
...striped cathedral. Little of his original sculpture exists, for Luca, his nephew Andrea's five sons spent most of their time making Delia Robbia ware: lunettes, busts, plaques, friezes, fountains, lavatories. Shiploads of these copies remain. So much Delia Robbia ware is assembled in the Florentine Bargello that the third floor looks like one interminable bathroom...