Yes, he is exactly the same Brunelleschi who designed the dome of the cathedral of Florence. Thursday, September 22, The novel of the fat woodworker. La novella del legnaiuolo grasso. You surely know Brunelleschi and Donatello, the greatest artists of the early Florence Renaissance ca, before America was so called, just to contextualize. And as it happens among the best, they were sometimes rivals, but that kind of rivalry that is intelligent, fruitful and respectful of the other.
A shining example of this kind of rivality is narrated by Vasari, a renaissance historian. Vasari recounts that Donatello, after having carved with great effort a crucified wooden Christ, thinking he had created an extraordinary work, showed it to his friend Brunelleschi to have his opinion. Brunelleschi, expecting a masterpiece, laughed when he saw it and told him that, due to the excessive realism, "it seemed that he had put on the Cross a common peasant and not the perfect body of Jesus Christ.
Donatello, disappointed by this judgment, exclaimed angrily: Brunelleschi, teased, secretly started working on a crucified wooden Christ and four months later, encountering Donatello while shopping at the marketplace, invited him to lunch at his house, he put in his apron several eggs to prepare the omelette and he said him, "you go on that I'll catch up soon with the wine. When Donatello entered in Brunelleschi home, he immediately saw the Crucified wooden Christ that Brunelleschi placed so to be artfully illuminated by the sunlight coming through the window.
Amazed by that marvel, Donatello spread his arms dropping on the ground all the eggs and immediately after entered Brunelleschi who asked him, "And now what do we will eat? The E-mail Address es you entered is are not in a valid format. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address es.
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Editorial Reviews. Language Notes. Text: English (translation) Original Language: Italian Look inside this book. The Fat Woodworker by [Manetti, Antonio]. "The Fat Woodworker" is a delightful story in the tradition of the Italian Renaissance beffe, stories of practical, often cruel jokes. It is the tale of a prank engineered.
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Beach has recently been wondering about the potential for putting together a collection of practical jokes from history. A particular favourite is the joke played by the brilliant Florentine architect, Filippo Brunelleschi picture and a gang of rowdies, c. It comes down to us in various versions collectively known as the Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo the Story of the Fat Cabinet Maker , which begin to emerge in the s. In other words the joke or in Florentine beffa is well within living memory and, as we will see, some of the details tally with information we can find elsewhere in contemporary records.
It is employed partly because it is in English and partly because RK tells it well. Never one to resist retaliation, Filippo resolved to exact his revenge for this perceived slight by persuading a wide cast of characters to convince Manetto that he had metamorphosed into someone else: Beach interjects here that Manetto certainly existed, we have documentation.
There is nothing a priori impossible about this story. When Manetto arrived a few minutes later, he rattled the door and then, to his alarm, heard what sounded like his own voice in fact Filippo doing an impersonation ordering him to go away.