A new generation of biographers can present them with understanding as well as reverence, as great men rather than marble statuary.

新一代的传记作家，将建国者们看作伟人而不是大理石雕像，表现出对他们的理解和爱戴。

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Right in front of the gallery, the symbolic marble statuary is graciously placed.

在展馆的门前有一座标志性的大石雕塑。

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To wax eloquent about someone's embossed silver, sumptuous carpets or marble statuary was to indict him.

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The winners, Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, were in their early 20s, and their winning bronze panels are here side by side, along with examples of the classical Roman statuary they incorporated: one of the many marble versions of the "Boy with a Thorn" for Brunelleschi, and the muscular red marble torso of a centaur for Ghiberti.

WSJ: Review: The Flowering of the Florentine Renaissance | 'Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence 1400�C1460,' at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence