Donatello . Fig. 35. Terracotta-BUST (called Niccolo da Uzzano). Florence. Museo Nazionale (Bargello) (To page 44.) which had to serve purely decorative purposes. Thus, in 1422, he fittedinto the Northern porch of the Duomo, in a rather unfortunate positionbetween corner pilaster and pediment, the frameless busts of a bearded manand of a youth, whose sharp profiles appear like re-animated Roman headsby the Pisani. But in his character figures of this period the influence 41 of the antique wanes gradually. Their heads altogether lose their typicalcharacter. On the Campanile it only appears in t
Donatello . Fig. 35. Terracotta-BUST (called Niccolo da Uzzano). Florence. Museo Nazionale (Bargello) (To page 44.) which had to serve purely decorative purposes. Thus, in 1422, he fittedinto the Northern porch of the Duomo, in a rather unfortunate positionbetween corner pilaster and pediment, the frameless busts of a bearded manand of a youth, whose sharp profiles appear like re-animated Roman headsby the Pisani. But in his character figures of this period the influence 41 of the antique wanes gradually. Their heads altogether lose their typicalcharacter. On the Campanile it only appears in the melancholy St. John,The head of the St. Louis of Or San Michele has also a somewhat generalized,youthful softness and regularity, which becomes almost expressionless. Butin this case it is probably due to special intention. The lack of mentaltension in these features is so striking, that, in Vasaris days, it gave riseto the anecdote, that Donatello wanted to indicate, that a man who like. Fig. 36. Terracotta - BUST (called Niccolo da Uzzano). Florence. Museo Nazionale (Bargello).After a photograph from the original by Giacomo Brogi, Florence. (To page 44.) S. Louis, renounced the advantages of royal descent in order to becomea monk, must be an imbecile. Such frivolous sarcasm was, however, neitherin the spirit of the times, nor in the character of young Donatello. Hewas rather led by the conviction of the blessedness of the poor in often chose such types for his saints. In this sense even the BargelloDavid is already related to the St. Louis, though the link is closer in thecase of the clay bust of S. Lorenzo at S. Lorenzo (Fig. 40), which will bereferred to later. The psychological interpretation of such heads is certainly 42
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