Donatello . thehuman figure; his favourite ornament is the piUto. Putti are crouching below, in the predella-Vike frieze, wherethey are holding disks; others are resting on the pediment, as on thecediada in S. Croce in Florence; others again, on the high attic, aided bytwo caryatide-like companions, lift the curtain over the relief of the Entomb-ment. The latter are rejuvinated successors of the two angels on the Cosciamonument, in the antique manner. But here the putti directly undertake thefunctions of angels as well. These lovely boys, inclined before the Holiestof all, with fluttering hair
Donatello . thehuman figure; his favourite ornament is the piUto. Putti are crouching below, in the predella-Vike frieze, wherethey are holding disks; others are resting on the pediment, as on thecediada in S. Croce in Florence; others again, on the high attic, aided bytwo caryatide-like companions, lift the curtain over the relief of the Entomb-ment. The latter are rejuvinated successors of the two angels on the Cosciamonument, in the antique manner. But here the putti directly undertake thefunctions of angels as well. These lovely boys, inclined before the Holiestof all, with fluttering hair and with their little arms crossed over theirchests, peeping round the corner, inspired partly by devotion, partly bycuriosity, are instinct with the same devotion which the Gabriel of theFlorence tabernacle proclaims. But this time, with theij buxom limbsdressed in a short chiton, they are quite in the antique spirit. Their compeersand congeners disport themselves on the second, dated work of this sojourn. Fig. 70. Tomb-STONE of Giovanni Sa. Maria in Aracoeli. (To page 78.) 78 in Rome: the tomb-stone of the papal abbreviatore Giovanni Crivelli of Milan(died July 28. 1428), which has unfortunately suffered so much from thetouch of passing feet, that one can only surmise the original delicacy of therecumbant figure (Fig. 70). Here, too, the tondo with the coat of armsabove the shell-roofed niche is held by two putti in energetic action. Apart from their lineage and sentiment, the putti of the marble taber-nacle of St. Peters have another and additional significance which refersback to the scene of the annunciation at S. Croce. The youthful bodies
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