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 141
135 character is the impression of instantaneous movement, effervescent and convulsive to the verge of paroxysm — but next to it again perfectly quiet men who are only just present and a number of squatting, silently brooding … Fig. 127. Clay Relief. Flagellation and Crucifixion. London. South Kensington Museum. (To page 134.) figures : the quietness of the grave personified. These are no longer figures to which the measure of living models may be applied. Their limbs are frequently twisted out of shape, their gestures…
Donatello, 1386?-1466
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