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Donatello

Italian Renaissance sculptor

This article is about the artist. For other references, see Donatello (disambiguation).

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (;^[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. He spent time in other cities, where he worked on commissions and taught others; his periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy the techniques he had developed in the course of a long and productive career. His David was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity; like much of his work it was commissioned by the Medici family.

He worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco, and wax, and used glass in inventive ways. He had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical number.^{[citation needed]} Although his best-known works are mostly statues executed

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Donatello (about 1386 – 1466) is arguably the greatest Italian Renaissance sculptor. He revolutionised sculpture both through his inventive treatment of imagery, and his mastery of an extraordinary range of materials – including marble and stone, bronze, wood, terracotta and stucco as well as unusual mixed media. He rarely repeated himself, striving for innovation and never quenching his thirst for experimentation.

Donatello created a multitude of textures and light effects on his sculptures. He often enhanced surfaces by applying colour, gilding and silvering, to maximise their impact on the viewer. His choice of materials would also have been influenced by the commission, and the purpose for which they were made. The use of expensive gilding – as seen on the Reliquary bust of San Rossore, for example – could carry symbolic meaning and underlined the preciousness of the object. Donatello's fascination with surface treatment and unusual combinations of materials probably derived in part from his early training as a goldsmith. Although none of his goldsmiths' work survive

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Donatello Biography

Donatello di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, better known as simply Donatello, is arguably one of the most influential sculptors from the Italian Renaissance. He was born in 1386 or 1387 in Florence, Italy. The exact date is unknown.

Donatello's father was Niccolo di Betto Bardi. The Bardi family were commercially successful and Niccolo Bardi was a wool carder that had earned a modest place in Florence's bourgeois society. This social rank likely earned Donatello an apprenticeship around 1400 to learn stone-carving with one of the many sculptors who worked nearby during the construction of the Florence's cathedral, the Duomo.

Between approximately 1404-1407 Donatello found employment as a member of Lorenzo Ghiberti's workshop. Ghiberti was well known for his International Gothic style of bronze sculpture and excelled at creating gracefully subtle lines in his work. Donatello's first statue depicting David is one of his earliest known works and in many respects pays homage to Ghiberti's style. Other early works include his