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Saint George Freeing the Princess is a marble stiacciato bas-relief sculpture by Donatello, sculpted around 1416 or 1417. [1] It was originally situated under the same artist's Saint George on an external niche of the church of Orsanmichele in Florence; both works are now in the Bargello Museum, with replicas replacing them in their original positions.
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 "first milestone" in the technique is his marble Saint George Freeing the Princess on the base of his Saint George for Orsanmichele. The figures project slightly forward, but "by skilful overlaps are brought back into a tightly-stretched unified skin-plane which is scarcely broken in surface relief to suggest a deep, though not ...
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 ...
Léonide — a Spartan princess, disguised as a man called Phocion. Corine — her servant, disguised as a man called Hermidas. Hermocrates — a philosopher. Hesione — Hermocrates' sister. Agis — son of Cléomène, the deposed king of Sparta. Dimas — Hermocrates' gardener. Harlequin — Hermocrates's servant.
The princess has an elaborate hairdo, with bends holding a large mass of hair; the latter begins very high on the brow, according to a style which was popular in the early 15th century, obtained by cutting the hair on the brow and the temples with a lit candle. [1] The princess' dress is a sumptuous one in cloth and fur.
Princesses from the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. Pages in category "Spartan princesses" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
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]