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cast in bronze, by Benvenuto Cellini, who also worked. 
its base and the small statues and sculptures of the 
basso-rilievo, allusive tò the story of Perseus. — It is 
considered one of the best works of the great master. 
M." Browning, in casa Guidi Windows, speaks of 
this statue 
......where is set 
Cellini ’s godlike Perseus, bronze or gold, 
(How name the metal, when statue flings 
Its soul so in our eyes?) with brow’and sword 
Superbly calm, as all opposing things 
Slain with the Gorgon .... » 
As a pendant to this group, under the right arch; 
is the. 
Rape of Sabines with its basso-rilievo, is a work 
of Gian Bologna which was placed there in 1583. 
Gian Bologna after he had’finished a group of a 
young man holding up a young woman in his arms 
with an old man at his feet, called his friends toge- 
ther, to tell him what name he should give it; and it 
was agreed to call it the Rape of Sabines, a meaning 
that was helped by a bas-relief in bronze of the Rape 
of the Sabines, inserted in the pedestal, and which is 
of greater artistic value than the statue itself. — Un- 
der the side arch is the fine group' modelled and cast 
in bronze of 
Judith slaying Holofernes by Donatello, who 
engraved his name on it. — The group is said to be 
emblematical of the expulsion of Walter of Brienne, 
(the Duke of Athens in 1343) and to have been erec- 
ted in that feeling by the people; it remained for