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Donato Di Niccolò Di Betto Bardi - College Paper

Donato Di Niccolò Di Betto Bardi

Donato (Donatello is a diminutive form, just as Kenny is for
Kenneth) di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was born in Florence about 1386. He
probably learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working on the
Florence cathedral in about 1400. Between 1404 and 1407 he worked in the
workshop of the Gothic sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, who had won the
competition to create some bronze doors for the cathedral baptistery.

Donatello created two marble statues in a new style for the church
of Or San Michele in about 1415. In these statues, 'St. Mark' and 'St.
George', for the first time since Roman classicism, the human body was
shown as a functioning figure with a human personality--in sharp ...

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Donatello also worked in bronze, beginning in about 1423. The most
important bronze works were 'David', the first large-scale, free-standing
nude statue of the Renaissance; 'Gattamelata' in Padua, the first bronze
equestrian, or man-mounted-on-horse, statue to commemorate a non-ruler and
the model for all subsequent equestrian monuments; and twin bronze pulpits
for the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence, just before his death
there on Dec. 13, 1466. In the late 1440s Donatello also executed a complex
high altar for Padua's church of San Antonio containing seven life-size
bronze statues, 21 bronze reliefs, and a large limestone ...

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Added: 8/10/2007 12:26:25 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 293
Pages: 2

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