The Work of Donatello, Reproduced in 277 Illustrations (1921)

THE WORK OF DONATELLO, REPRODUCED IN 277 ILLUSTRATIONS, Paul Schubring, hardcover, 1921. ITEM CONDITION: good. The text block and illustrations are in very good condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Spine cracked but not separating along title page. There is a bookplate affixed to the rear pastedown, and the signature of a former owner is written on the first free endpaper. Gilded top edge. Not a library book or remainder. The red cloth boards are in good condition (Shelf wear, lightly bumped corners, bumped and faded spine). 10 x 7 ½, 191 pages, 32 ounces. XX [Wikipedia] “Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture. He spent time in other cities, where he worked on commissions and taught others; his periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy the techniques he had developed in the course of a long and productive career. His David was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity; like much of his work, it was commissioned by the Medici family. He worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco, and wax, and used glass in inventive ways. He had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical number. Although his best-known works are mostly statues executed in the round, he developed a new, very shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a good deal of his output was architectural reliefs for pulpits, altars and tombs, as well as Madonna and Childs for homes. Broad, overlapping phases can be seen in his style, beginning with the development of expressiveness and classical monumentality in statues, then developing energy and charm, mostly in smaller works. Early on, he veered away from the International Gothic style he learned from Lorenzo Ghiberti, with classically informed pieces, and further on a number of stark, even brutal pieces. The sensuous eroticism of his most famous work, the bronze David, is very rarely seen in other pieces.”.…