Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Prophet Habakkuk
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Prophet Habakkuk
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Alternate Title:
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Zuccone
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Image View:
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Detail, upper part of figure from the left
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Creator:
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Donatello (Italian sculptor, ca. 1386-1466)
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Location:
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repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza del Duomo 9
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GPS:
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+43.772333+11.256222
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Date:
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1423-1426 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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196 cm (height)
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Subjects:
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human figure; Old Testament and Apocrypha; prophets
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Description:
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Late in 1415 Donatello began work on two life-size marble statues of Prophets,Jeremiah and Habakkuk, for some niches high on Giotto’s Campanile. (The originals, weathered by centuries of exposure, are now in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo and have been replaced with modern copies on the Campanile.) These statues were the earliest of a whole series, the execution of which lasted until the end of the mid-1430s; for the sake of speed, some were carved in collaboration with other sculptors. They were to be seen high above eye-level, so their features and drapery had to be boldly chiseled, yet their movements were constricted by the narrow lancet shapes of the pre-existing niches. Gnarled hands and wizened faces express the pathos of these Old Testament prophets, whose messages were rarely heeded. Their heads look like portraits. They are clearly indebted to ancient Roman ancestor busts. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-DB-OD-HAB-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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