Donatello . Fig. 132. 141. is disturbed in takingthe mothers breastwhich is already bared!In most cases henestles to her, and theheads too are closetogether. Donatello ishere led to the samemotifs which afterwardsare to occupy small medallion ofthe Paduan relief is socompletely the proto-type of Raphaels Ma-donna of the CabaTempi in Munich,that one may concludethat the Urbinate knewit as well as the reliefwith the dead Madonna withthe squatting Child (marble relief at the Berlin Museum, Fig. 132) is a characteristic exampleof his maturest relief-art. The foreshortened for

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Donatello . Fig. 132. 141. is disturbed in takingthe mothers breastwhich is already bared!In most cases henestles to her, and theheads too are closetogether. Donatello ishere led to the samemotifs which afterwardsare to occupy small medallion ofthe Paduan relief is socompletely the proto-type of Raphaels Ma-donna of the CabaTempi in Munich,that one may concludethat the Urbinate knewit as well as the reliefwith the dead Madonna withthe squatting Child (marble relief at the Berlin Museum, Fig. 132) is a characteristic exampleof his maturest relief-art. The foreshortened forms are here placed in frontof each other and of the background in the style of gems. — In this subject, too, his manner of relating gains in fulness and breadth,notwithstanding his being confined to the semi-figure. Frequently cherubsheads are added to the principal group. In a spoilt replica which was in1902 at Stefano Bardinis in Florence, the Berlin plaster-relief with thealmost frightened looking Madonna (Fig. 131) r

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