Donatello . Was it satisfaction, similarto Polizianos when he composedthe description of the palace ofVenus in his Giostra. — Butfor us it fortunately remains onlya grain of learning in the fullmeasure of his living art!. THE DAVID. The best that Donatello sawand searched for in the antique,was not subject, but form. Thework which appeared most clas-sical to the 16th century, andhas remained so in our eyes,bears a name that is anythingbut antique: it is the bronzeDavid in the Bargello (ill. 83and 84). We have no date towork upon, since Vasaris ac-count, which connects the re-moval of this stat
Donatello . Was it satisfaction, similarto Polizianos when he composedthe description of the palace ofVenus in his Giostra. — Butfor us it fortunately remains onlya grain of learning in the fullmeasure of his living art!. THE DAVID. The best that Donatello sawand searched for in the antique,was not subject, but form. Thework which appeared most clas-sical to the 16th century, andhas remained so in our eyes,bears a name that is anythingbut antique: it is the bronzeDavid in the Bargello (ill. 83and 84). We have no date towork upon, since Vasaris ac-count, which connects the re-moval of this statue from the court of the Casa Medici to that of the Palazzo Vecchio with the banishmentof Cosimo in 1433, is based on error. The bronze David did not get intothe Palazzo Vecchio before 1495. It is moreover more probable, thatthis statue was made for the court of the new Medici palace, which waserected by Michelozzo! A decision based entirely on Stilkritik is madevery difficult, as this work is in many ways so singular, that it might justas well be fitted into any period of the masters developement, as in artistic problem itself can already be found in the very beginningof his work, and happens to be treat
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