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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.
Erasmo of Narni was born in Narni, in Umbria, into a poor family.His station in life led him to the military, initially under the Assisi lord [2] Cecchino Broglia. Later, together with his friend Brandolino Brandolini, he served under Braccio da Montone, one of the leading Italian condottieri of the 15th century, [3] lord of Perugia from 1416.
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 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 ...
Giovanni di Antonio di Banco, called Nanni di Banco (c. 1374 – 1421), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence. He was a contemporary of Donatello – both are first recorded as sculptors in the accounts of the Florence Duomo in 1406, presumably as young masters. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
Bertoldo di Giovanni, Young Philosopher, c1470, Florence, Bargello. Bertoldo di Giovanni (after 1420, in Poggio a Caiano – 28 December 1491, in Florence) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and medallist. [1] Most of his sculptures, as opposed to medals, were small bronzes for the Medici, of the sort Giambologna produced a century later.