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Donatello's Saint George Freeing the Princess of 1417, the first known stiacciato relief. Stiacciato (Tuscan) or schiacciato (Italian for "pressed" or "flattened out") is a technique where a sculptor creates a very shallow relief sculpture with carving only millimetres deep. [1] The rilievo stiacciato is primarily associated with Donatello ...
The shallow relief style was not much used by other sculptors, though Michelangelo's early Madonna of the Stairs (c. 1490) is an essay in it. [167] Michelangelo's David (1501) is both "an ode and a challenge to Donatello".
The Feast of Herod is a bronze relief sculpture created by Donatello circa 1427. It was made for the font of the Siena Baptistery of San Giovanni in Italy. It is one of Donatello's earliest relief sculptures, and his first bronze relief. [1] The sculpture is noted for Donatello's use of perspective. [2] The piece is 60 by 61 centimeters.
There is a stone relief under the figure, that is displaying a woman observing St George slaying the dragon in the middle. There is a cave on the left, colonnade on the right and the relief also has a background with trees. The closest objects are carved in relatively high relief, whereas the cave, the colonnade and the background trees are ...
The Sala di Donatello of the Bargello in Florence, the museum with the largest and best collection of Donatello's work. The following catalog of works by the Florentine sculptor Donatello (born around 1386 in Florence; died on December 13, 1466, in Florence) is based on the monographs by H. W. Janson (1957), Ronald Lightbown (1980), and John Pope-Hennessy (1996), as well as the catalogs of the ...
The Ascension with Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter is a rectangular stiacciato (schiacciato) marble relief sculpture of c. 1428–1430 by Donatello, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
The Pazzi Madonna is a rectangular "stiacciato" marble relief sculpture by Donatello, since 1886 in the sculpture collections of the Bode-Museum in Berlin. [1] [2] Dating to around 1420 and 1425 [3] at the beginning of Donatello's collaboration with Michelozzo, it was most likely produced for private devotion and possibly commissioned by the Pazzi family for their home in Florence. [4]
The base of the sculpture resembles a cushion, a naturalistic device first used by Donatello for his St. Mark in the Orsanmichele. Intended to function as a fountain, this statue sits on a triangular pedestal with holes for water to flow through. [4] The four corners of the cushion and three relief carvings in the base serve as outlets for the ...