# Zuccone
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{{Short description|Statue by Donatello}}
{{Infobox artwork
| image = Zuccone Donatello OPA Florence.jpg|alt=Zuccone by Donatello
| image_size = 200px
| title = Zuccone
| artist = [Donatello](/source/Donatello)
| year = 1423–1425
| type = [Marble](/source/Marble)
| city = [Florence](/source/Florence)
| museum = [Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence)](/source/Museo_dell'Opera_del_Duomo_(Florence))
}}
{{Lang|it|'''Lo Zuccone'''}} ({{IPA|it|lo dzukˈkoːne}}; {{Translation|the large head|the bald head}})[{{cite web |title=Vocabolario on line Treccani |url=https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/zuccone |publisher=Istituto Enciclopedico Treccani |access-date=4 June 2022 |ref=Zuccone 2a., b. |language=Italian}}] is the popular name given to a [marble](/source/marble) [statue](/source/statue) by [Donatello](/source/Donatello). It was commissioned for the [bell tower](/source/bell_tower) of the [Cathedral](/source/Florence_Cathedral) of [Florence, Italy](/source/Florence%2C_Italy) and completed between 1423 and 1425. It is also known as the '''''Statue of the Prophet Habakkuk''''' ({{Langx|it|Statua del Profeta Abacuc}}), as many believe it depicts the [Old Testament](/source/Old_Testament) prophet [Habakkuk](/source/Habakkuk), though [Vasari](/source/Vasari) says that it is a portrait (in Biblical garb) of Giovanni di Barduccio Cherichini.[{{cite web |last1=Vasari |first1=Giorgio |title=Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori |url=https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_vite_de%27_pi%C3%B9_eccellenti_pittori,_scultori_e_architettori_(1568)/Donato |access-date=4 June 2022 |date=1568}}]
This statue is known for its [realism](/source/Realism_(arts)) and [naturalism](/source/naturalism_(arts)), which differed from most statuary commissioned at the time.[Lindsay, David - Earl of Crawford (1911) ''Donatello.'' Echo Library (reprint 2008), {{ISBN|9781406849318}}] ''{{Lang|it|Lo Zuccone}}'' is reported to have been Donatello's favorite, and he has been claimed to swear by the sculpture, "By the faith I place in my ''{{Lang|it|zuccone}}''."[Spooner, Shearjashub (1880). ''Anecdotes of painters, engravers, sculptors and architects, and curiosities of art, Volumes 1-3.'' A.W. Lovering] Donatello is said to have shouted "speak, damn you, speak!" at the marble as he was carving it.[{{cite magazine|last1=Butterfield|first1=Andrew|title=The Magic of Donatello|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/23/magic-donatello/|website=New York Review of Books|publisher=NYREV, INC|access-date=22 April 2015}}] It has been described as the most important marble sculpture of the fifteenth century.