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 43
37 carelessness. On the other hand the separate action of the naked right arm is of exaggerated energy. The hand presses against the body with unexplained, almost convulsive, muscular tension. The statuesque balance of the earlier figures is thus destroyed for the sake of a drastic, instantaneous… … his work and has, for esthetic judge- Fig. 31. St. John the Baptist. ment, the value of an objective Florence. Museo Nazionale (Bargello). (To pages 32 and 38.) art principle. — Not as though it were irrecon- cilably at variance with the earlier statues ! In each case the artist's sole aim was to…
Donatello, 1386?-1466
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