Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence. It represents "Lorenzo the Magnificent," mounted on a richly caparisoned white horse at the head of "The Procesion of the Magi." He wears a yellow and gold tunic with red sleeves, red silk tights, and, on his flowing curls; a jeweled cap surmounted by a crown. Knights on horseback and on foot form his escort...
...which tickles without wounding. Josefina insists on her husband's "lack of character," imploring him to make up his mind about anything. "If it turns out to be wrong, all the more reason for sticking to it." She conceives of her husband heroically: "If he rides into office on horseback like Don Quixote, he will ride out on an ass like Sancho Panza." She leaves no doubt in his mind: "I loved you out of pity like--Desdemona loved Othello." And when the Governor's secretary forgets the Governor and the tenth commandment, and takes her hand, Josefina cries...
...three Marys, and in the group of figures near her stand the Magdalen, who gazes at the figure of the Saviour on the cross, and St. John, weeping, his head resting on his folded hands. At the right and left of the cross are soldiers on horseback bearing a red standard on which are the letters...