Donatello, Prophet, 1436
He seems anxious, if not anguished: fraught with pent-up
emotion. His head tilts forward with eyes wide and the lips of his large mouth
parted. He appears about to say something. A legend recounted by Vasari, a
century later, has it that Donatello was so affected by the lifelikeness of the
statue that, while working on it, “he would look at it and keep muttering,
‘Speak, damn you, speak!’”
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