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GENERAL INDEX 375 bia school, in Florence, 2379; Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, life of, as a child, statue by Antonio on the baptismal font in Win Rossellino, in the Bargello, chester, 1556. 2381; as a child, bust by An Peter, in a lunette by the della tonio Rossellino, in Florence, Robbia school, in Florence, 2384; as a boy, bust by A. 2379. Rossellino, in Faenza, 2392; as Petronius, head from a statue by a child, statue by Dubois, in Jacopo della Quercia, in Bo the Luxembourg, 2601; history logna, 2358 A. of, on the Font at Siena, Regulus, head by Civitali, in 2355- . Lucca, 2257. John the Evangelist, in a lunette Romanus, relief of, by Civitali, from the choir screen at Enk- in Lucca, 2260. huizen, 2174 C; relief by Bene Sebald, tomb of, by Peter Vischer, detto da Maiano, in Siena, in Nuremberg, 2555. 2248 D; on the doors by Luca Sigismond, on the Trenta altar della Robbia, in Florence, 2372; by Jacopo della Quercia, 2356. and his school, relief by Bel- Veronica, Christ's meeting with, lano (?), in Berlin, 2426; relief by Adam Krafft, in Nurem in Chantilly by Goujon, 2487 berg, 2543. D; symbol of, by Donatello, in Zenobius, reliefs from the reli Padua, 2282 L. quary of, by Ghiberti, in Flor Joseph, on the tympanum of ence, 2308 A-D. Freiberg, 1479. Salutati, Leonardo, monument of, Lorenzo, bust by Donatello, in by Mino da Fiesole, in Fiesole, Florence, 2295; on the Trenta 2338. altar by Jacopo della Quercia, Samos, archaic statue of Hera (?) in Lucca, 2356. from, in the Louvre, 350. Lucia, on the Trenta altar by Samothrake, relief from, in the Jacopo della Quercia, in Lucca, Louvre, 371; Nike of, in the 2356; in a lunette by the della Louvre, 809. Robbia school, in Florence, Samson, statuette from the pulpit 2379. in the Baptistery, Pisa, 1809 A; Luke, relief by Benedetto da statuette on the St. Sebald Maiano, in Siena, 2248 C; on monument, in Nuremberg, 2555. the doors by Luca della Robbia, Sansovino, Andrea, panels from the in Florence, 2372; relief in tombs of Girolamo Basso and Chantilly, by Goujon, 2487 C; Sforza, in Rome, 2025 A-C, symbol of, by Donatello, in 2026 A, B. Padua, 2282 K. See also 2174 A. Jacopo, sculptor, p. 302; group of Mark, in a lunette of the choir Bacchus and a faun, in the Bar screen at Enkhuizen, 2174 B; gello, 2429; relief of the Ma relief by Benedetto da Maiano, donna and Child and Saints, in in Siena, 2248 B; by Ghiberti, Berlin, 2430. relief from the Baptistery door, Sappho (?) and Alkaios, on a relief Florence, 2307 C; relief by from Melos, in the British Mu Goujon, in Chantilly, 2487 B; seum, 387; head, in the Villa symbol of, by Donatello, in Albani, 781; so called, bronze Padua, 2282 J. bust in Naples, 1036. Matthew, relief by Benedetto da Saracenic art, p. 222. Maiano, in Siena, 2248 A; on Saragossa, model of the doorway of the doors by Luca della Robbia, the Cathedral, in the Armeria in Florence, 2372; relief by Real, Madrid, 1919. Goujon, in Chantilly, 2487 A; Sarcophagus of Khufu-Ankh, side symbol of, by Donatello, in of, in Cairo, 5; Egyptian, found Padua, 2282 I. See also 2174 A. at Sidon, in the Louvre, 45; .

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