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Pulpit

The Dionysian motif of the dancing winged Erotes seemed most fitting to the artist to symbolise the rejoicing at the showing of the Holy Girdle, and the effects of a modelling that makes use of broken surfaces, stiacciato, contrasts of materials and colours, taken from Hellenistic, Etruscan, Byzantine and medieval examples, are fused in the new intention of creating a direct and natural vision of animated space.

How to cite

Bruno Balestrini (photograph), “Pulpit”, work by Donatello, Renaissance Sculpture, Prato, Cathedral. Bruno Balestrini Photographic Archive, https://brunobalestrini.org/cita/sch00084/. Accessed [date accessed].

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