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case of painting. The sculpture of the Gothic period was tied up with the architecture,
and since the architecture was lofty, with long sweeping lines, so was the sculpture. A
Alse-there In Italy, where the Renaissance was most powerful, a different type of archi-
tecture was developed and therefore a different type of sculpture. Moreover, there was a
great deal of sculpture done in the Renaissance as a definite art form and for its own
sake, having little connection with architecture. The statue, standing free as we know it,
was really a Renaissance idea, so far as we are concerned. There were few such works in
the Gothic period. But, as in the case of painting, the sculpture of the Renaissance de-
veloped more or less logically out of the Gothic type which preceeded it,
Donatello is a good example of one of these transition sculptors. When the interest in
the work of Greek and Roman cultures began, excavations were undertaken, and a fair number
of Greek and Roman sculptures were found. These were far different from the wotk of the
Goths; they were more human for one thing. Donatello was torn between two loves. He liked
many things in the Gothic works, and he liked the newly found work of the ancients. His
work is a sort of compromise between these two styles.
Then, too, sculptors began to observe people around them in the same way the painters
did. They took nature as a starting point instead of the more or less rigid rules that
had guided the work of the previous centuries. And this humanizing movement reached its
climax in the hands of Michelangelo. After his time, sculpture seemed to deteriorate, 8
since Michelangelo-was such a powerful-artist that everyone copied his work instead of
going to nature and working out their own ideas. When artists begin to copy, art declines.
The Renaissance divides itself naturally into two main divisions. The first is the re-
vival of learning and the second is the revival of the arts. In the former, the first
great figure that we have is Dante. However, Dante was still carrying on the work of the
Middle Ages, particularly in subject matter, But in 1304 Petrarch was born, and early be-
gan to write in a more humanistic vein. The Boccaccio came along in 1313 and in the
Decameron gave us the basis on which both the short story and the novel of today are based
And there was Castiglione, who wrote about courts and courtiers, and a host of other wri-
ters.
For the first time we have a literature growing up that is something like that that we
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Compton, Carl Benton. [Radio script by Carl B. Compton], script, February 24, 1936, 9:00 p.m.; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1164770/m1/9/?q=%22History%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.