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. 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" (12). This independence was
             something new in the time of Donatello. Allowed Donatello to dominate and to leave
             his mark for years to come. Cruttwell had this to say of Donatello's lasting effect on the
             art world: "So completely Donatellesque did Italian art become that it is impossible to
             conceive what direction it would have taken without his overwhelming influence...and
             that every great Master of our own day consciously or unconsciously based his art upon
             that of Donatello" (12). That is because Donatello rapidly matured as an artist and was
             able to one of the first artists to be able to "represent humanity as it exists with crude
             veracity, accentuating impartially its merits and defects. For him beauty and form had
             little interest" ( 12). Donatello's Campanile statues were "expressively" ugly and
             his 'St. Mark' has an "intellectual" harshness to it (Corrick 59).
             As an artist, Donatello's main interests were in creating a life like
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