Donatello
Early Renaissance Italian sculptor (1386–1466)
- Fame67.5
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- Artists rank#66
- Fame67.5
- Momentum0.0
- Artists rank#66
- Wikipedia39.8K
He cast the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity — a bronze David for the Medici that still unsettles with its sensuous eroticism — and in doing so cracked open what Renaissance sculpture could dare to be.
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Born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi around 1386 in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and forged an Early Renaissance style that broke from the International Gothic he'd learned under Lorenzo Ghiberti. He worked in stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco, wax, and glass, developing a new shallow bas-relief technique and producing not just freestanding statues but architectural reliefs for pulpits, altars, and tombs. Commissions took him to Rome, Padua, and Siena, spreading his methods across Italy; the Medici became steady patrons. His style moved from classical monumentality and expressiven…
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