This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...among Donatello's creations, one must overlook the """-cc c--"" execution of isolated parts. It is his first sectional, cyclic composition. The double pilasters, which divide the seven relief panels of the pulpit, are only the intervals between the strophes of a song--of a bacchante-song in orgiastic ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...among Donatello's creations, one must overlook the """-cc c--"" execution of isolated parts. It is his first sectional, cyclic composition. The double pilasters, which divide the seven relief panels of the pulpit, are only the intervals between the strophes of a song--of a bacchante-song in orgiastic time. Only the life of Christ and of the Saints had so far been related by Italian art in serial form, but to treat a freely invented theme in this manner, needed the renaissance of the antique with its marvellous mixture of freedom and rhythm. And this was effected again by the help of the antique putto. He was to be seen, dancing and playing, on Roman sarcophagi, and long since he had entered into the art of the church. With the gay tune of flutes he accompanies the Ascension of the Virgin who presents St. Thomas with her girdle, on Nanni's pediment of the Northern door of the Florence Duomo. The putto was welcome, too, on the pulpit in Prato, where this relic was to be shown to the waiting crowd in the course of public festivities. A lasting echo of this frame of mind, a "ballo di fanciulli," a round dance of children--that was what Donatello wished to create for the people of Prato in the place of the originally planned legend of the "Cintola." But for himself he created far more! The troop of children on this relief resembles a mountain stream rushing over its boundaries. You feel, that in the creative artist's fancy a similar force, that has long been latent, has suddenly been set free. Donatello's own art has a new aim: bacchantic joy of life in rushing, overpowering movement. This was absent in his preceding work. Where he had earthly. The wings are only attached to the backs of these...
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Used-Acceptable. Fair hardback in limp cloth. Monographs on Artists VIII. Pages generally clean; cream cloth on front board stained & soiled; maroon cloth worn at head & foot of spine & at board edges.
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With 140 Illus. from Pictures, Etchings and Drawings. 4to, blue cloth (a bit bubbled). Bielefeld, 1904. Monographs on Artists, Edited by H. Knackfuss, vol. VIII.