The artist had included distortions to account for the sculpture being seen from below (in its original location its base would be just above the height of an average person-see image at the bottom of this page). The only difference was the installation of the work in its proper context. When it was finally uncovered, everyone viewed the statue with wonder. The patrons agreed, the statue was installed, and Donatello covered it up for fourteen days-pretending to work on it but in reality not touching it. Supposedly, when the patrons first saw the statue standing on the ground they were displeased with it, but Donatello convinced them to let him install it in its niche, where he would finish working on it. The sixteenth-century artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari gives us a humorous anecdote about Donatello’s Saint Mark. Donatello, Saint Mark, 1411-13, marble, 93″ (236 cm) Orsanmichele, Florence (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
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