Donatello [antikvár]

PREFACE. A description of Donatello's life and work within the restricted space of these monographs is a particularly fascinating, but also a particularly difficult, task. Numerous problems force themselves upon the author. They concern the date of some of the master's most important original works and the authenticity of others passing under his name. These questions can only be lightly touched upon. The chief aim of this book is to extract the most fruitful information about Donatello's art from those works whose authenticity has been established beyond doubt. The works themselves are to be placed in the foreground, for they are immortal possessions Their sequence will be determined not so much by reasons of probability of traditional dating, as by their inner connection. "A biography is not a chronological table." ALFRED GOTTHOLD MEYER.