[Footnote 255:  Gauricus, b. 1.]

[Footnote 256:  Vespasiano de’ Bisticci, Vite.]

[Footnote 257:  “Vasari,” iii. 253.]

[Footnote 258:  Ibid. iii. 244.]

[Footnote 259:  “Fo in Fiorenza ad tempo de’ nostri padri Donatello huomo raro, semplicissimo in ogni altra cosa excepto che in la scultura.”]

[Footnote 260:  Matteo degli Orghani, writing in 1434, says:  “Impero che e huomo ch’ ogni picholo pasto e allui assai, e sta contento a ogni cosa.”  Guasti, iv. 475.  Donatello died in 1466, probably on December 15.  He was buried in San Lorenzo at the expense of the Medici.  Masaccio painted his portrait in the Carmine, but it is lost.  The Louvre panel No. 1272, ascribed to Paolo Ucello, shows the painter, Manetti, Brunellesco, and Donatello.  Monuments have been recently erected to the sculptor in his native city.  For Donatello’s homes in Florence, see “Misc.  Fiorentina,” vol. i.  No. 4, 1886, p. 60, and “Miscellanea d’arte,” No. 3, 1903, p. 49.]

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I

WORK LOST OR NOT EXECUTED

Padua.—­For the Santo altar, a figure of God the Father, stone; a Deposition and the remaining bas-reliefs mentioned in the “Anonimo Morelliano;” a St. Sebastian, wood; a Madonna in the church of the Servi.

Ferrara.—­Donatello probably worked there; in 1451 he visited the town as an assessor.  Gualandi, iv. 35.

Modena.—­Donatello also visited this town in 1451, and received a first instalment towards the equestrian statue of Borso d’Este.  Campori, “Gli artisti Italiani.”  Modena, 1855, p. 185.

For Mantua he made a large number of works, including columns, capitals, images of the Madonna in stone and terra-cotta, a St. Andrew in tufo, &c.; also the design for a shrine of St. Anselm.  See documents in Archivio Storico Lombardo, 1886, p. 666.  At Rome a St. John Baptist, “Una testa” in the Minerva Church, and the portrait of Canon Morosini in Santa Maria Maggiore.

At Siena a Goliath, a silver crucifix, gates for the Cathedral, and a marble statue of San Bernardino.

At Ancona and Orvieto statues of St. John the Baptist.

At Florence the following works are lost:  the Dovizia, a figure of Plenty, which stood in the Mercato Vecchio; two bronze heads for the Cantoria; the Colossi for the Cathedral; four large stucco Saints in San Lorenzo; a statue with drapery of gilded lead made with Brunellesco.  San Rossore for Ogni Santi; a reliquary of Santa Verdiana (Richa, ii. 231); Albizzi tombs.  The Cathedral gates were never made.  Bocchi, Cinelli, Vasari, and Borghini mention a large number of smaller works now unidentified; plaquettes, Madonnas, crucifixes, heraldic shields, busts and reliefs.

APPENDIX II