Donatello . ition and raising the figure of Christ into the result was a principal group which reminds most of Nanni di Bancospediment over the porta delta mandorla of the Duomo in Florence, wherethe floating Mary hands down her girdle to St. Thomas. But in Nanniswork it was a question of filling a mural triangle with almost round figures,whilst Donatello wished to produce another relief picture: an imposing rowof figures in a landscape, under trees, with a view over the distant hills;and above it the clouds which serve the Saviour as throne and surroundHim at the same time like the
Donatello . ition and raising the figure of Christ into the result was a principal group which reminds most of Nanni di Bancospediment over the porta delta mandorla of the Duomo in Florence, wherethe floating Mary hands down her girdle to St. Thomas. But in Nanniswork it was a question of filling a mural triangle with almost round figures,whilst Donatello wished to produce another relief picture: an imposing rowof figures in a landscape, under trees, with a view over the distant hills;and above it the clouds which serve the Saviour as throne and surroundHim at the same time like the waves of the sea, enlivened by flying all this on a band-like, narrow panel! Imagine the solution of sucha task by Ghiberti! He would have shaped the front figures almost in theround, and then gradually flattened the rows to the right and left in theirdimension of depth until he had reached the stiacciato. He would haveraised the hills and trees in high relief, and shown the floating Saviour in 68. Fig. 60. Tabernacle of the Annunciation. Florence. S. a photograph from the original by Alinari Brothers, Florence. (To page 72.) bolder foreshortening; and through this he would have been obliged toseparate St. Peter from the other disciples, perhaps to reduce by meansof a hill the space between him and the Saviour, just as Moses is broughtnearer Jehovah in the relief of Moses receiving the Laws. Thus theperspective connection of the scene would have suffered. Donatello saw itfrom the very first as a complete whole and from so considerable a distance. 69
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