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in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, under the name of Abundance. The general attitude of the Italian of the Renaissance towards art was to demand of it that it should delight the eye, and that it should appeal to his intelligence, and stimulate the nobler impulses of his complex nature. Nothing was too trivial for the sculptors so long as it was justified by the example of the antique, which they venerated, and gave them scope for the exercise of their decorative talents. Especially can this be applied to Giovanni Bologna, whose work reveals the same refined feeling throughout all his known examples.

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