Donatello

Donatello

Italian painter and sculptor
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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c.– 13 December 1466), better known as Donatello ( ), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture, whose periods in Rome, Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy a long and productive career. Financed by Cosimo de' Medici, Donatello's David, was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity. He worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax, and had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical number. Though his best-known works were mostly statues in the round, he developed a new, very shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a good deal of his output was larger architectural reliefs.

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Donatello was born on 1386 in Republic of Florence. He was best known as a sculptor. Donatello's country of citizenship (nationality) was Italian. He died on Thursday, 13 December 1466 in Republic of Florence at the age of 80.

You can find people similar to Donatello by visiting our lists 15th-century people of the Republic of Florence and 15th-century Italian sculptors.

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