Note 376 — Chapter XVII · HUESCA—ZARAGOZA.
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This reredos cost 5500 crowns (escudos) or libras jaquesas.—- Cean Bermudez, Arq. de España, i. 218.—Damian Forment is said to have studied under Donatello, which seems, however, on a comparison of dates, to have been all but impossible. The epitaph on his monument in the cloister here described him as “arte statuaria Phidiæ, Praxitelisque Æmulus,” a statement which must be accepted with the reserve usual in such cases.—Bellas Artes en España, ii. p. 132.