Donatello : with 140 illustrations from pictures etchings and drawings (1904)
Meyer, Alfred Gotthold, 1864-1904 · Bielefeld and Leipzig ; New York : Velhagen & Klasing : Lemcke & Buechner · leaf 120
ere is something mysterious and unapproachable in Donatello's Madonnas — even in his reliefs, where they gaze into the Infant Saviour's eyes. In the case of the Paduan statue it lies in the total appearance. A slight suggestion of it could already be found in his only earlier seated fig'ure : the… … Fig. 107. Madonna between St. Francis and St. Anthony from the High Altar of S. Antonio. Padua. After a photograph from the original by Alinari Brothers, Florence. (To page 114.) lap, staring straight in front of her, motionless, almost stiff. The whole figure is entirely composed for a frontal…
Donatello, 1386?-1466
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