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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (English: / ˌ d ɒ n ə ˈ t ɛ l oʊ /; [2] Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. [a] Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture.
The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is an Italian Renaissance sculpture by Donatello, dating from 1453, [1] today in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy.It portrays the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly under the Republic of Venice, which ruled Padua at the time.
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 ...
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 ...
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 cruzifix on display in the Donatello exhibition, Berlin 2022. The Basilica del Santo Crucifix is a 1444–1447 bronze sculpture by Donatello on the high altar of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua in Padua. It measures 180 by 166 cm; his only monumental bronze on that scale prior to that date had been his 1423–1425 Saint Louis of ...
Judith and Holofernes (1457–1464) [1] is a bronze sculpture created by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello towards the end of his life and career. It is located in the Hall of Lilies (Sala dei Gigli), in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
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.