Word: donatellos
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...Another art cache (some $10 million worth), was found in a village near Vicenza, Italy: more German loot lifted from Italian museums. Packed in 23 cases, it included Donatello sculpture, rare coins...
...supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo...
...such traditional manners as those of Poussin, Ingres, etc. To the end of his short life, solemn, bearded Georges lived with utter circumspection, detested eccentricity of dress (the black suit and top hat best suited him) and was variously described by friends as resembling the St. George of Donatello, a young business executive, and a notary with the profile of an Assyrian king...
...could hardly be called reprisal for these misdeeds in Europe if, for instance, the enormous Statue of Liberty* were destroyed as retaliation for the destruction of The Creation by Donatello...
With the passing centuries the personality of Sculptor Donatello has suffered one curious change. Having finished a statue he is not satisfied with it until he has caused Alceo Dossena to take it out in the back yard, smash it with a hammer, skillfully round the edges of the break with fine abrasives, pickle it in acids and stains, then repair it with fetching crudity...