DONATELLO

BIRTH AND DEATH DATE

• Birth: 1386
• Death: 1466
• Age: 80
• Born and lived in Florence Italy

ABOUT

• Donatello was a sculptor of the renaissance
• He liked humanism and nature
• His early work was in the gothic style
• Later on, he began to develop a style of his own
• He was also very close with the Medici family

WHERE

• Donatello is from Florence, Italy
• Florence, Italy is said to be the heart of the rennisance
• Florence had many artists in the city
• Florence was the center of European wool trade
• The Medici family controlled Florence for most of the Rennisance

MOST FAMOSE WORK

• Between 1411 and 1413 he sculpted St. Mark, this was placed in the exterior of Orsanmichele Church
• In 1430 an art patron commissioned him to sculpt a second statue of David but this time in bronze
• At a young age, he helped Lorenzo Ghiberti make the bronze doors for the baptistery of the Florence cathedral
• In 1450, Donatello completed a bronze statue called Gattamelata, shown as the background

QUOTE

• "Donatello made for it with his own hand the effigy of the dead
• man in gilded bronze, together with the marble statues of
• Hope and Charity, and his pupil, Michelozzo, made the
• statue of Faith." I-176

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Donatello Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 03 Dec. 2013.
• "Donatello." Donatello. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Dec. 2013.