FLORENCE, BEGINNINGS TO UCCELLO 



wether in good condition weighed a good deal less than 

 40 Ib."^ The ass occurs of necessity in the Flight 

 into Egypt and the "colt" also in the Entry into 

 Jerusalem. The shape of the head, the droop of the 

 neck from the shoulder, and the outward bulge of the 

 eye are well studied : Giotto knew and loved the 

 domestic animals. 



In the Adoration of the Magi is a grotesque camel, 

 of which it can only be said that the painter has done 

 his best without a personal acquaintance with the animal.^ 

 He succeeds again in those sculptures on the Campanile 

 at Florence, which are at least designed if not executed 

 by him. The puppy and the sheep in one, and the little 

 bear preparing to climb the tree in another, are admir- 

 able. "Brother Falcon" appears in an anonymous 

 fresco in San Francesco-al-Prato at Pistoia, Reception 

 of the Stigmata, and a wolf and a mule are in the 

 background. A charming group of interested birds, 

 much too big for the landscape, occurs in the top of 

 the fresco of St. Catherine by Buffalmacco (.'*) in the 

 lower church at x^ssisi. It includes a robin and a 

 wagtail. 



In the National Gallery there are two panels of a 



^ Six Centm-ies of Work and Wages, 1908, p. 80. 



- The camel was traditional here. " St. Jerome saith that they came 

 upon dromedaries, which be beasts that may go as much in one day as an 

 horse in three days." — Caxton's first edition of the Golden Legend, 1483. 



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