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Donatello (Classic Reprint) Book
PREFACE^HE popular appreciation of Italian sculpture at the present time practically recognises one name alone, that of Michel Angelo; and if a vague consciousness exists of other names behind his, they are for the most part dismissed as " quaint," and of genuine interest only to the curious.Thus Donatello-the "scultore rarissimo e statuario maravighoso " of Vasari, the object of even Buonarotti's imitation-is to-day generally reckoned as a mere Renaissance forerunner, and by no means as himself one of the Immortals.Even professed students of Art have more or less shared in this inability to recognise his greatness. Cicognara, in his "Storia della Scultura," when concluding his notice of this master, remarks: " But if Donatello had discovered all the possibilities of the Art of Sculpture, … read more...
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