Donatello . 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 li
Donatello . 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. Fig. 37. St. John the Baptist. Florence. Rluseo Nazionale (Bargello),After a photograph from the original by Giacomo Brogi, Florence. (To page 44.) not injustifiable, and least of all with Donatello. Without indulging insubtle speculations, he was yet careful to render the required picture ofcharacter in the physiognomies. The ascetic heads of his figures of St. Johnin Berlin and in the Bargello (Fig. 32) help to prove this. But this pointof view must not be laid too much stress upon, because it leads in somerespects to uncertain ground. The names of the Campanile statues aredubious. Perhaps they were not even required to represent any particularprophet, but just a prophet (profetae Jigura), and therefore justa characterhead. In choosing it the master consequently had a free hand,as with those purely decorative heads mentioned above.—It is the moreimportant, that a new group of physiognomies commences with the Berlinstatuette of St. John. They are soon left without the slightest sug
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