The sculpture's history represents the Renaissance era, which marked the beginning of the anti-Gothic and post-Gothic elements in Donatello's sculpting.
Kyu-ha used to live as Donatello and was the epitome of 'All artists are eccentric.'
"I won't work for you anymore if you don't heed my opinion."
"Then I no longer need it."
Clash
While designing the Medici Palace with his friend Brunelleschi, he was rejected for making it too grand and ostentatious, so he destroyed the design model on the spot. There is also a well-known anecdote: when a Genoese merchant tried to haggle too hard for his completed work, he threw it down the stairs and smashed it.
"Donatello, I'm sorry. Please come and work for me; I'll double the previous pay. The client is desperately waiting."
The merchant pleaded and offered double the initial price, but Donatello never recreated the piece he had already broken.
"Unfortunately, the soul I put into that artwork is already gone. So I won't ever make it again."
Donatello's artworks had 'passion' and 'soul' attributes, and he wasn't obsessed with 'balance' and ‘boundaries’ like the others.
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