A blockbuster exhibition in Florence argues that the Italian sculptor deserves to be a household name on par with Michelangelo and Raphael Nora McGreevy - Correspondent "Donatello: The Renaissance" ...
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Donatello’s “David” (c. 1435-40) presides over the grand, second-story hall of the Bargello Museum, elevated on a higher base than previously (though one shorter than the sculpture’s original ...
A long-overlooked marble bust in a small-town museum could be a rare signed work by Donatello, experts claim. The attribution makes the 15th-century sculpture, once mistaken for a 19th-century ...
The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men. It may be tempting to categorize ...
“Sculpture in the Age of Donatello,” a splendid small show of early-Renaissance Florentine works at the Museum of Biblical Art, on Broadway at Sixty-first Street, impelled me to haul down my very long ...
When New York art dealer Andrew Butterfield arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts in the spring of 2013, he carried with him a tantalizing conjecture: An obscure 15th-century sculpture, which the museum ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ‘David Victorious’ (1408), made from marble, was Donatello’s first major attempt at the biblical hero . . . . .
An exhibit in Florence puts the 15th-century sculptor at the epicenter of the Renaissance, presenting a master whose innovations transformed art history. By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — ...