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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 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 ...
Ángel Fabián Di María (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈaŋxel faˈβjan di maˈɾia]; born 14 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Primeira Liga club Benfica. Known for his trickery, rapid pace, and agility, Di María is widely considered one of the greatest Argentine ...
David is a marble statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello.One of his early works (1408–1409), it was originally commissioned by the Operai del Duomo, the Overseers of the Office of Works, for the Florence Cathedral and was his most important commission up to that point.
Donatello was thought to have executed the work when he was more than sixty years old, after he had spent a decade in Padua. The dating was supported by a 1455 copy from Neri di Bicci's workshop, now in the Museum of the Collegiate of Empoli. In 1500 the work was in the city's baptistery.
This spurred Brunelleschi to produce for Santa Maria Novella in c.1410-1415 his own crucifix - Donatello's first sight of that work made him drop the eggs he was carrying. The Anonimo Magliabechiano , probably writing in the 1530s or 1540s, also attributes the work to Donatello, as does Vasari in a letter to Matteo Benvenuti dated 29 December ...
Jacopo della Quercia (/ ˌ d ɛ l ə ˈ k w ɛər tʃ ə /, [1] Italian: [ˈjaːkopo della ˈkwɛrtʃa]; c. 1374 – 20 October 1438), also known as Jacopo di Pietro d'Agnolo di Guarnieri, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, a contemporary of Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello. He is considered a precursor of Michelangelo.
Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa The San Rossore Reliquary is a gilded bronze sculpture of 1424–1427 by Donatello . The monks of Ognissanti, Florence had acquired the skull of Saint Luxorius (popularly known in Pisa as "san Rossore") in 1422 and two years later they commissioned the reliquary to house it.