Donatello . as in de-corative work, in tasks of the kind as was presented by the niches of OrSan Michele, the front of the Duomo and of the Campanile, and the SingingGallery. But even in these cases Donatello had hitherto been restrictedto single figures, or at the best, to a uniform series of figures. As yetthis decoration, engendered by the sculptors thoughts, lacked the space for varied and quantitativelyrich plenitude^ The road to mass-production of decorative artwas opened to Donatelloin Florence by the have no accurate know-ledge of the date, whenthe master first enteredinto cl

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Donatello . as in de-corative work, in tasks of the kind as was presented by the niches of OrSan Michele, the front of the Duomo and of the Campanile, and the SingingGallery. But even in these cases Donatello had hitherto been restrictedto single figures, or at the best, to a uniform series of figures. As yetthis decoration, engendered by the sculptors thoughts, lacked the space for varied and quantitativelyrich plenitude^ The road to mass-production of decorative artwas opened to Donatelloin Florence by the have no accurate know-ledge of the date, whenthe master first enteredinto closer relations withthem. The sarcophagusof Giovanni de Medici inthe sacristy of S. Lorenzo,which passes as Donatellos-first work for the Medici,,is executed by Brunelles-chis foster-son Giovanni died in1429, only the shell was Fig. 88. Head of St. John the Evangelist. finished of the Sacristy Medallion on the ceiling of the Sacristy of S. Lorenzo. Florence. (To page 98.) founded by him and com-. 97

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