Donatello . decrepitude. He listens to the mostsubtle emotions of the soul, and follows the wildest burst of passion. Hepromotes the individual in its quiet existence to a characteristic type. 6 and dissects the meteor-like occurrence into personally fancy gives an entirely new value to every task. Sometimes he borderson absurdity in his one-sidedness, sometimes he employs simultaneouslyall the means of artistic effect. The harmony of his work melts as in afiery glow, and his personality — clearly outlined at first — grows demon-like into gigantic proportions out of the stu
Donatello . decrepitude. He listens to the mostsubtle emotions of the soul, and follows the wildest burst of passion. Hepromotes the individual in its quiet existence to a characteristic type. 6 and dissects the meteor-like occurrence into personally fancy gives an entirely new value to every task. Sometimes he borderson absurdity in his one-sidedness, sometimes he employs simultaneouslyall the means of artistic effect. The harmony of his work melts as in afiery glow, and his personality — clearly outlined at first — grows demon-like into gigantic proportions out of the sturdy workshop-tradition of themiddle ages. One can understand that criticism followed him but with a painful late renaissance still admired Donatello. Raphael paid him the greatesthomage with which a master can honour his precursor: he learnt from him,he took from him figures and groups and breathed a higher life into , through his own work, professed himself his follower. Surely. Fig. 2. Marble screen. Sacristy of S. Lorenzo. Florence. (Andrea Buggiano.) Vasari spoke the mind of these two, when he praised Donatello as the firstsculptor since the days of antiquity. But then his image begins to the 17th century we hear but little about him, in the i8th almost , the first historian of Italian sculpture, resents, that Donatello isnot nearly as highly esteemed as he deserves. He has reinstated him inhis right place, but he sees only an aberration in his realism, and excusesit in these terms: If Donatello had already achieved every thing, whatwould have remained — for Not much later Ruhmor wrote thatDonatellos spirit is as poor as it is crude. At that period spirit stood for the spiritual; — a generation latera new art taught, that it is the individually conceived element of life:that force which seizes nature in a powerful grasp and places it before usin full freedom. Thus Manet became the leader of modern painting,
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