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Most of Donatello's major works for churches remain in situ, or moved inside to the church museum. The Bargello in Florence has the main museum collection, including his most famous portable pieces. Hardly any large pieces are outside Italy, but there are many Madonnas and other smaller pieces, often with uncertain attributions.
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 ...
Donatello's Saint Mark (1411–1413) is a marble statue that stands approximately 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) high and is displayed in the museum of the Orsanmichele church, Florence. It originally was displayed in an exterior niche of the church, where a copy now stands.
Saint George (Italian: San Giorgio) is a marble sculpture by Donatello. It is one of fourteen sculptures commissioned by the guilds of Florence [1] to decorate the external niches of the Orsanmichele church. St. George was commissioned by the guild of the armorers and sword makers, the Arte dei Corazzai e Spadai.
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. [1]
This is a parish church in the vicariate of the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta governed by the Servite Order (order of the Servants of Mary). The church contains outstanding works of art including a wooden crucifix by Donatello.
David is a marble statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello.One of his early works (1408–1409), it was originally commissioned by the Operai del Duomo, the Overseers of the Office of Works, for the Florence Cathedral and was his most important commission up to that point.
Saint John the Baptist is a painted wood statue of 1438 by the Florentine Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello.It remains in its original site in the Frari Church in Campo del Friari in the San Polo district of Venice, Italy.