Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Prophet Habakkuk
Alternate Title:
Zuccone
Image View:
Detail, upper body and head from the right
Creator:
Donatello (Italian sculptor, ca. 1386-1466)
Location:
repository: Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza del Duomo 9
GPS:
43.772333 11.256222
Date:
1423-1426 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Fifteenth century; Renaissance
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
196 cm (height)
Subjects:
human figure; Old Testament and Apocrypha; prophets
Description:
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.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-DB-OD-HAB-A06
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Prophet Habakkuk