"Donatello was the genius of the resurrected art, Donatello was the master, the guide who inspired many other artists strong in intellect, rich in aptitude who lacked nothing but the inspiration that came to them from him, so one can to say that in Donatello the Italian art of that fortunate century is embodied, that in Donatello the art of the fifteenth century is admired and celebrated, the art which through his work was so admirably able to detach itself and emancipate itself from the narrow-mindedness of the past. (p. 2)"