angioloni

Updated: August 20, 2026

It is true that the lunette of Madonna is a little feeble and without life, though some have given it falsely to Verrocchio, and the two angioloni bearing the arms have little force; but the tomb itself is a thing done once and for all, and the figure of the dead poet is certainly the masterpiece of a man who was perhaps the first sculptor in marble of his time.

Edward Hutton - Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa: With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson: And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition