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And so it was that the statuette, a genre widely admired in classical antiquity and mostly forgotten in the Middle Ages, was reborn in Quattrocento Florence. Whereas ancient statuettes were often placed as votive objects on the altars of Hercules or Venus, in Renaissance Tuscany they were purged of their original religious power to become objects of a very different devotion, the cult of art. By the hundreds, if not the thousands, these costly objects reached to many parts of Italy and beyond, and are now encountered often enough in museums that it takes a spec

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