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Orsanmichele, with Donatello's Saint George (today a replica) left of the corner Another large-scale sculptural project in the city was the completion of the statues for the niches around the outside of the rectangular Orsanmichele , a building owned by the guilds of Florence , which was in the process of turning itself from a grain market to a ...
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, the bronze David (1440s?), Bargello Florence, h.158 cm David is a bronze statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello , probably made in the 1440s. Nude except for helmet and boots, it is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance , and the first freestanding ...
The figure's wings are those of a cupid (a putto or Eros), while the leggings uncovering the buttocks and pubis are those of Attis.Other proposals for its identity are Perseus, Priapus, Mercury (according to Muntz), Harpocrates, a faun (according to Venturi), Cupid-Hercules, Mithras, Eros-Patheos, a personification of drunkenness, a child genius or a half-demon half-angel child spirit. [3]
The statue is known for its realism and naturalism, which differed from most statuary commissioned at the time. [3] 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 zuccone." [2] [4] Donatello is said to have shouted "speak, damn you, speak!" at the marble as ...
In 1408, the Operai del Duomo commissioned the statue. [3] At the time, Donatello was twenty-two [4] and had been active in the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti. [5] Donatello's earliest known important commission, the marble David statue was to be placed on the tribune of the dome at one of the buttresses on the north side of Florence Cathedral. [6]
A stone thrown at the sculpture in 1858 broke its nose, [2] and in 1892 Donatello's St. George was moved to the Bargello Museum in Florence. [3] From 1892 to 2008 a bronze replica was placed in the original niche, to be replaced by a marble replica on 23 April 2008.
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