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Donatello

[ don-uh-tel-oh; Italian daw-nah-tel-law ]

noun

  1. Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, 1386?–1466, Italian sculptor.


Donatello

/ donaˈtɛllo /

noun

  1. Donatello13861466MItalianFlorentineARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor real name Donato di Betto Bardi. 1386–1466, Florentine sculptor, regarded as the greatest sculptor of the quattrocento, who was greatly influenced by classical sculpture and contemporary humanist theories. His marble relief of St George Killing the Dragon (1416–17) shows his innovative use of perspective. Other outstanding works are the classic bronze David, and the bronze equestrian monument to Gattamelatta, which became the model of subsequent equestrian sculpture


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The piece was generally thought to be a later copy of a Donatello original.

And then in the north aisle you may see the statue called a portrait of Poggio Bracciolini by Donatello.

Donatello, too, had three figures here beside the relief beneath the St. George.

Very fair and surprising it is with its frieze of angels' heads by Donatello, helped perhaps by Desiderio da Settignano.

But again this work too seems, in spite of Vasari, to belong rather uncertainly to Donatello.

For all his genius, Ghiberti, that euphuist, did not influence those who came after him as Donatello did.

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