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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 ...
All accounts describe Donatello as amiable and well-liked, but rather poor at the business side of his career. [3] Like (not only) Michelangelo in the next century, he tended to accept more commissions than he could handle, [4] and many works were either completed some years late, handed to other sculptors to finish, or never produced.
Both of Donatello's statues of David, in marble and in bronze, entered the collection of Florence's Museo Nazionale del Bargello in the 1870s. [3] In 2023, the marble David was exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as part of its "Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance" exhibition. This was the first time it was seen in the United ...
Draper, James David. "Donatello (ca. 1386–1466)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. (October 2002) "The Early Renaissance: 1400–1494." Web. 28 February 2010. Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine; Kleiner, Fred S. Gardner's Art Through the Ages A Global History, Volume II. Belmont ...
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 ...
Sculptures by Donatello (c.1380s−1466) — the Italian Renaissance sculptor, based in the Republic of Florence. Pages in category "Sculptures by Donatello" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Amore-Attis Rear view. Amore-Attis (literally Love-Attis) is a bronze sculpture by Donatello of c. 1440–1443. It is 104 cm high and has traces of its original gilding, and is now in the Museo del Bargello in Florence.
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.