Pazzi Madonna

Dating about 1422, this masterpiece is like a personal solution provided by Donatello to the same problems that confronted, at that time, Jacopo della Quercia and Masaccio - that is to say, the grafting onto a traditional representation, by the "new" use of classical and Gothic motifs, of a revolutionary and unified concept of natural structure. In the schiacciato technique Donatello introduces a new unity between spatial depth and plastic energy.