Donatello (1904) (14595109218) - Public domain book illustration

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



Text Appearing Before Image:
Fig. 79. Dancing Putti on the Singing Gallery of the Duomo in Florence. Cf. Fig. 77. (To page < 87 in somewhat boorish, but thoroughly healthy force. And this force, withall its wildness suggestive of lion cubs, moves in the smallest, narrow, flatspace. Consider, what the clear distribution of such an abundance of ani-mated forms means under these conditions! The means for awakening theillusion of space are already known from earlier reliefs. They consist otthe contrasts of movement between those figures which detach themselvesfrom, and those which recede into the plane. But they have never beforebeen as full of energy, as they are now. They dance and jump, storm
Text Appearing After Image:
\ tell ;«. ■ ..A Fig. 80. Singing Gallery. Florence. S. Lorenzo.After a photograph from the original by Alinari Brothers, Florence. (To page 91.) forward and pull back, bend and resist — and yet, by their entwined fingersthey remain connected in a firmly linked, round dance; for every singlerelief panel — with the sole exception of one which is composed as a singlerow — represents an entirely independent, closed, round dance. This is anew triumph for Donatellos classicist relief-art which is here at its heightagain as regards pure form as well: the figures are worked in bold relief,but in their high position retain an appearance of delicacy and flatness.The same mastery reveals itself in the bronze capital which supports thewhole pulpit. From its curved abacus a putto leans far forward; his curlyhead and spread wings give depth to the whole composition. One feelsthe hand of Donatello, how ever strongly the decoration of this capital may 88 in other ways have been influencedby