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Writing in the Italian art review, Commentari, Berenson said that Sani's sculptures were not merely "like" the late Roman ones, they were just as good. In Sani's Rustic Dance, for example, "you get the bosses, the depth of shadow, the highly conventionalized foliage, the architecture, even, of a Third or Fourth Century sarcophagus. Looking attentively, you are amused to discover couples dancing in our own way and in our own clothes . . . One could fill pages pointing out the whirling couples, the musicians, the carousers admirably characterized each with his peculiar way of grasping, of moving...
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