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Identifier: donatello00meye (find matches)
Title: Donatello
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Alfred Gotthold Konody, Paul G. (Paul George), 1872-1933
Subjects: Donatello, 1386?-1466
Publisher: Bielefeld and Leipzig : Velhagen & Klasing
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Fig. 83. David. Florence. Museo Nazionale.After a photograph Irom the original by Giacomo Brogi, Florence. (To pages 46 and 93.) ^ f 0 , 91 Michelozzo as author of the general composition and the architectonic partof the work, whilst no trace of this master is to be found in the Florentinework. And again Donatellos power reveals itself also as regards decorationin the wholly original way, in which he creates a very singular object of artfrom ornamental motives that are somewhat heavy in design, but improved
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Fig. 84. Head of David. Cf. Fig. 83.After a photograph from the original by Giacomo Brogi, Florence. (To page 93.) A by the use ot coloured paste. Soon after, in the singing gallery oi S. Lorenzocommissioned from him by Cosimo, he tried the same methods of deco-ration, without almost any addition of figures, and therefore still more clearlyin the spirit of the marble and mosaic incrustation of the men employedby Cosimo (Fig. 80). This decoration appears again on the Madonna taber-nacle of the Medici Chapel in S. Croce, which has already been referred to(Fig. 68). Here the beautiful vases—which on the singing gallery intersect 92 the frieze — are placed in pairs, one above the other, but symmetricallyarranged, so that the two lower vases stand upside down(!). Did Brunelleschis friend see in such works too, overloaded as they arewith almost baroque details and colours, a style based on the antique? Wemust believe it, since the classic world still lay in crepuscular light beforeDonat

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