Identifier: donatello00meye (find matches)
Title: Donatello
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Alfred Gotthold Konody, Paul G. (Paul George), 1872-1933
Subjects: Donatello, 1386?-1466
Publisher: Bielefeld and Leipzig : Velhagen & Klasing
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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The last pair, St. Lodovico and St. Prosdocimo (Fig. 109), are less important — the one a somewhat more effective version of the type first embodied at Or San Michele in Florence, the other the figure of a Bishop of harsh severity. As figures in the round all these statues are essentially variations of earlier motifs, and their chief quality is their simplicity. Progress in power is only to be detected in the easier command over the means of expression employed: there are no new features.
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Fig. 109. SS. Lodovico AND Prosdocimo from the High Altar of S. Antonio. Padua. (To page 115.) This cannot be said of the small reliefs with their wealth of figures(Figs, no—113). They had to deal with the representation of miracles thatcan be better related than depicted. Neither painter, nor sculptor canindicate, that a child testifies to its mothers innocence, that a miser hasa stone instead of a heart in his breast, that it is just the host beforewhich a mule is going on its knees, and that the wound which is onlyclosing through a miracle, is the self imposed punishment for a misdeed.The knowledge of the event and the intention of knowing it, are pre-supposed. But let them be forgotten for the moment! Try to interpretwhat you see: crowds of people in an imposing setting, astounded, standing,kneeling, surging like waves of the sea, and in the centre in every case astriking occurrence, represented in quiet objectivity! This is the key ofgrand, historic art. It was first struck in

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