e humanists were able to do with their pen.
             Donatello was not limited in the way some other artists of the time were. The reasons he is so important to history of Italian art is because of "his originality of conception, his sudden and complete breakage with tradition, and his technical innovations" (Cruttwell 3). Donatello could work on his own. He did not need to work off the premises set by others. His independence and skill were what made him a chief and pioneer of Italian art. Both the Florentine schools of painting and sculpture were dominated by Donatello. The reason Donatello's influence was so strong was because he "visualized with his own eyes, conceived with absolute independence, and executed with methods equally original and free from prescribed rules" (Cruttwell 2). This independence was something new in the time of Donatello and allowed Donatello to dominate and to leave his mark for yea
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