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 28
the threshold of a new era with unknown joys and perils. — But in this case, as with every great work of art, the appreciation of its purely formal value is alone sufficient. How much the creator of this statue had learnt since his first attempts at statuary, — the little figures of the cathedral-… … Fig. 16. Florence. Campanile. West -front. (To page 28.) movement of David ; the greatest wealth of form, tempered by admirable restraint; fascinating charm, natural freshness, and a simplicity that is most surprising of all. The whole conception touches the borderland, where the "pose" commences.…
Donatello, 1386?-1466
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