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Donatello’s costly life-sized bronze is often eclipsed in the modern imagination by Michelangelo’s better known marble version. The later artist’s nude colossus, however, owes much to the early renaissance sculptor.
30 kwi 2020 · Decades before Michelangelo's marble masterpiece, Donatello paved the way for classical aesthetics in Renaissance art with his bronze sculpture of David. How much do you know about this celebrated sculpture?
Donatello’s David. Donatello, David, c. 1440-1460, bronze. Perhaps Donatello’s landmark work – and one of the greatest sculptural works of the early Renaissance – was his bronze statue of David. This work signals the return of the nude sculpture in the round figure, and because it was the first such work like this in over a thousand ...
10 paź 2024 · What is Donatello known for? What was Donatello’s family like? How was Donatello educated? How did Donatello die? Donatello (born c. 1386, Florence [Italy]—died December 13, 1466, Florence) was a master of sculpture in both marble and bronze, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists.
David is the name given to two sculptures by the early-Renaissance Italian sculptor, Donatello. In 1408, the artist was tasked to carve a marble statue of David, who was a biblical character that fought courageously against the gigantic Goliath.
Donatello (about 1386 – 1466) created some of the most significant sculptures of the biblical hero David to come out of the Renaissance. While Michelangelo's monumental marble 'David' is perhaps better known today, Donatello's iconic bronze was the first free-standing male nude in this luxurious material since antiquity, doubtless inspiring ...
David. This small but exquisite bronze is one of Donatello's most famous works. It is a five foot, freestanding bronze sculpture of David, from the classic story David and Goliath. He stands in contrapposto, a traditional classical stance of bearing more weight on one leg than the other.
