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PAINTINGS AND STUDIES 133
his design, but is certainly not by his own hand. The
line is tame and mechanical and the drawing poor. It
bears his name in contemporary writing, but a com-
parison with his genuine signature proves this to be
spurious.
In studying these works from the nude, the chrono-
logical order has been somewhat abandoned, but with
the exception of the “ Discord” the drawings of the
Herma and the Adam and Eve, most of them fall into
place around the frescoes of Arcetri and the engraving
of the Ten Nudes, and may, roughly speaking, be dated
from the years between 1464 and 1470. One record
exists of goldsmith’s work executed in these same years,
a suit of armour and trappings made by Antonio for
Benedetto Salutati to be worn at the Joust of Lorenzo,
which took place February 7, 1469.
The notice appears in the “ Discorsi ” of Borghini,
and although the work no longer exists, it has a certain
interest in giving some idea of the diversity of his
undertakings.
“ Benedetto Salutati (nephew of that Messer Coluccio,
famed in his time for his studies of the belles lettres) who,
although held in repute, and universally much esteemed,
was not however of our first and purest nobility, nor of
such excessive wealth that he was forced by his reputation
despite himself to enter into such great expense as were
the Medici, Pazzi, Pitti, and such others with whom he
might have to compete—yet was he of so noble a soul and
so great heart, tiiat in the caparison, headpiece and
other accoutrements of two horses, he employed 170 libbre
his design, but is certainly not by his own hand. The
line is tame and mechanical and the drawing poor. It
bears his name in contemporary writing, but a com-
parison with his genuine signature proves this to be
spurious.
In studying these works from the nude, the chrono-
logical order has been somewhat abandoned, but with
the exception of the “ Discord” the drawings of the
Herma and the Adam and Eve, most of them fall into
place around the frescoes of Arcetri and the engraving
of the Ten Nudes, and may, roughly speaking, be dated
from the years between 1464 and 1470. One record
exists of goldsmith’s work executed in these same years,
a suit of armour and trappings made by Antonio for
Benedetto Salutati to be worn at the Joust of Lorenzo,
which took place February 7, 1469.
The notice appears in the “ Discorsi ” of Borghini,
and although the work no longer exists, it has a certain
interest in giving some idea of the diversity of his
undertakings.
“ Benedetto Salutati (nephew of that Messer Coluccio,
famed in his time for his studies of the belles lettres) who,
although held in repute, and universally much esteemed,
was not however of our first and purest nobility, nor of
such excessive wealth that he was forced by his reputation
despite himself to enter into such great expense as were
the Medici, Pazzi, Pitti, and such others with whom he
might have to compete—yet was he of so noble a soul and
so great heart, tiiat in the caparison, headpiece and
other accoutrements of two horses, he employed 170 libbre