Anche la rana ha un perché



I’m glad to add a small appendix to the post I wrote last May about the Mario Pinton International Award in Padua dedicated this year to Donatello (just a remainder, the artworks are on display at the Oratorio di San Rocco until the 26th of July). Amongst the photos I published, there was the “frog” ring by Stefano Marchetti of which here is the funny story of why he choose this subject.

… Lo scontroso artista disse più tardi di essere stato ben felice di ritornare in Toscana «per non morire fra quei ranocchi dei padovani»¹
Con questo lavoro mi piace poter considerare stemperato quel bizzarro stato d’animo di Donatello.

…the grumpy artist said later that he was very happy to have returned to Tuscany «to die not among those Paduan frog-like people»¹
With this work I flatter myself I may have toned down Donatello’s bizarre state of mind.
¹ C. AVERY, L’invenzione dell’umano. Introduzione a Donatello, La casa Usher, Firenze, 1986, p.88
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