Donatello Renaissance Italian Painter and Sculptor – Bronze David
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (circa 1386 — December 13, 1466), better known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello’s case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism.

In Florence, Donatello assisted Lorenzo Ghiberti with the statues of prophets for the north door of the Florence Baptistery, for which he received payment in November 1406 and early 1408. In 1409–1411 he executed the colossal seated figure of Saint John the Evangelist, which until 1588 occupied a niche of the old cathedral façade, and is now placed in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. This work marks a decisive step forward from late Gothic Mannerism in the search for naturalism and the rendering of human feelings.

Around 1430, Cosimo de’ Medici, the foremost art patron of his era, commissioned from Donatello the bronze David (now in the Bargello) for the court of his Palazzo Medici. This is now Donatello’s most famous work. At the time of its creation, it was the first known free-standing nude statue produced since ancient times.

Some of Donatello’s Master Works

“St. Mark” (1411–1413), Orsanmichele, Florence
St. George Tabernacle (c. 1415–1417) — Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
“Prophet Habacuc” (1423–1425) — Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
“The Feast of Herod” (c. 1425) — Baptismal font, Baptistry of San Giovanni, Siena
“David” (c. 1425–1430) — Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
“Madonna of the Clouds” (c. 1425–35) marble relief, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata” (1445–1450) — Piazza del Santo, Padua
“Magdalene Penitent” (c. 1455) — Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence
“Judith and Holofernes” (1455–1460) — Palazzo Vecchio, Florence