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View all 16 artworks. Donatello lived in the XIV – XV cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Early Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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May 30, 2024 · 83 artworks. Italian sculptor. Born 1386 - Died 1466. ARC. Leading the Revival of Realism. DONATELLO (diminutive of Donato) (c. 1386-1466), Italian sculptor, was the son of Niccol di Betto Bardi, a member of the Florentine Woolcombers Guild, and was born in Florence probably in 1386.
- Crucifix, 1406-08 | Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
- Marble David, 1408-09 | Bargello Museum, Florence
- St. John The Evangelist, 1408-15 | Duomo Museum, Florence
- St. Mark, 1411-13 | Orsanmichele, Florence
- St. George and The Dragon, 1416 | Bargello Museum, Florence
- Marzocco, 1416 | Bargello Museum, Florence
- St. Louis of Toulouse, 1423-25 | Museum of The Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
- Feast of Herod, 1422-27 | Baptistery of Siena Cathedral, Siena
- Bust of Niccolo Da Uzzano, 1432 | Bargello Museum, Florence
- The Annunciation Tabernacle, 1435 | Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence
Santa Croce’s painted wooden crucifix is one of Donatello’s early works. Christ is bearded, tanned, muscular, and sorrowful. The sculpture is a far cry from the usual idealized or heroic depictions. Christ’s face looks broken and swollen. His eyes are half closed. Brunelleschi, a close friend of Donatello, accused the sculptor of “crucifying a peas...
Marble David is an early work by Donatello, completed 30 years before his famous Bronze David. (And you can tell.) It was commissioned to be a statue on a buttress of Florence Cathedral. But it wasn’t large enough. It was placed outside the Duomo for 7 years. Then, the City Council basically stole it and placed it in the Piazza della Signoria. Marb...
St. John is a large scale figurative marble sculpture. It was to be placed, together with other Evangelists sculptures, on the facade of Florence Cathedral. In 1587, St. John and the other sculptures, was removed from the facade and placed inside the Cathedral. In 1930, they were moved into the Duomo Museum. This statue almost seems to anticipate t...
Orsanmichele’s most famous sculpture is Donatello’s St. Mark. The statue of St. Markwas commissioned by Florence’s linen guild, one of the poorer guilds. The larger than life statue stands almost 8 feet high. It’s the first truly Renaissance piece of art (sculpture was more advanced than painting). Donatello revived the use of the contrapposto stan...
St. George is one of Donatello’s best works. Like St. Mark, it was originally on the facade of Orsanmichele. To protect it, the sculpture was moved to the Bargello Museum in 1892 and placed in a duplicate marble niche. The sculpture is based on the legend of St. George and the dragon, a familiar fairytale. A town is besieged and attacked by a plagu...
Marzocco was the first statue the Medici placed in the Piazza della Signoria. The word “Marzocco” comes from the Latin word Marte, referring to Mars, the god of war. The statue was intentionally symbolic. A heraldic lion, carved from gray sandstone, sets his paw on a shield with a red fleur de lison a white background. That’s Florence’s flag and it...
St. Louis of Toulouseis Donatello’s earliest surviving bronze sculpture. Donatello tells the story of the humble friar who abdicated his throne for the church. Louis wears the sandals of a Franciscan friar. St. Louis’s gesture of blessing and the drapery of his attire show a classical influence. This sculpture was originally installed in a niche on...
In 1427, Donatello produced his first bas relief for the baptismal font of Siena Cathedral, the Feast of Herod. The bronze relief was renowned for its pioneering single point perspective. Donatello was inspired by Filippo Brunelleschi’s experiments with linear perspective. Rather than focusing on one single vanishing point, Donatello used a V as a ...
Donatello was gifted enough to work in any material to create his sculptures. One of his most sculptures is a half bust of a man named Niccolo da Uzzano. It was created with polychrome terracotta. It’s one of the oldest of its kind from the Florentine Renaissance. Da Uzzano was a famous politician in Florence. The sculpture was created one year aft...
This magnificent Donatello high relief sculpture sits casually on a church wall near the Cavalcanti Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Croce. It’s a massive piece, 7 feet by 5.5 feet. The Annunciation — the moment Mary learns that she will bear Christ — is one of the most common Renaissance themes. The sculpture is lavishly gilded. Donatello departs f...
Donatello: List of works - All Artworks by Date 1→10.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi ( c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello ( English: / ˌdɒnəˈtɛloʊ / [2] Italian: [donaˈtɛllo] ), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. [3] . Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, universally known as Donatello, was born in Florence around 1386 and died there in 1466. The powerful expressivity of his art made him the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance.
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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 2022/2023 exhibitions in Florence, Berlin and London. [1]
