Donatello . ecuted — and not only for small, decorative works, liketombs, altars, and tabernacles, but also for palaces and chapels! They alsounderstand the technical and constructive part of the builders art, andsupply models for buildings.—^^^lay Donatello be counted among ^ —The probability is ever growing^We know now that, as early as 1418, heand Nanni di Banco had a sufficiently important share in Brunelleschismodel for the cupola of the Duomo in Florence, to entitle them to thesame pay as Brunelleschi himself received. He did not enter into partner=ship with the architect Michelozz


Donatello . ecuted — and not only for small, decorative works, liketombs, altars, and tabernacles, but also for palaces and chapels! They alsounderstand the technical and constructive part of the builders art, andsupply models for buildings.—^^^lay Donatello be counted among ^ —The probability is ever growing^We know now that, as early as 1418, heand Nanni di Banco had a sufficiently important share in Brunelleschismodel for the cupola of the Duomo in Florence, to entitle them to thesame pay as Brunelleschi himself received. He did not enter into partner=ship with the architect Michelozzo — Brunelleschi would have been nearerat hand — but with the bronze-caster; That he, knew his own mind inmatters connected with architectural construction, and even more so in thedecoration of architectural parts; that he was as independent in such work,as in the conception of figural sculpture, is proved by his tabernacles atOr San Michele, S. Croce, and St. Peters in Rome. His plastic decoration. Fig. 97. Square of S. Antonio in Padua with Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata. (To page 107.) I04


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