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‘Donatello dominated Florentine sculpture of the second quarter of the 15^th century [ce]. He executed a series of prophets and a “Cantoria”, or singing[-]balcony, for the cathedral, saints for Or San Michele, decorative reliefs and bronze doors for the Old Sacristy of S. Lorenzo, and a bronze “David” (now in the Bargello, Florence) that comes closer to recapturing the spirit of antiquity than any other work of the early Renaissance – indeed, the very idea of a free-standing sculpture of a nude hero was without precedent since antiquity.’*

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*{cf the idea of the strip-tease of the Soul (not much tease) – eg in Astarte’s descent to Hell, and the Dance of the 7 Veils: like Classical Greece, the Renaissance until now represents the later stages of the rotational descent. BUT the Romans did imitate Greek nudes; & cf c[ontra]*** The Sistine Chapel’s supportive Putti.}

** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:95]

***[ie contra direction (although arguably not)? – see earlier volume/s re the Sistine Chapel ceiling]

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