Donatello - Finestre sull'Arte

Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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Slovakia, third-world scenes! Ministry commandeers work attributed to Donatello in movie-like action

Do you remember the bust attributed to Donatello that popped up a few months ago in Slovakia, displayed at the Spiš Museum in Levoča and has been talked about for some time by us as well?Well, at the end of last May, the same marble bust attr...
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Is there a new Donatello work in Slovakia? From Florence comes a cold shower

There has been much discussion in recent days about the possible attribution to Donatello of a long-neglected marble bust found in a small museum in a small town in Slovakia: we are talking about a portrait of a young woman kept at the Spiš Mu...
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When Donatello and Masaccio agreed on the Renaissance revolution in Pisa.

The Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa holds a very special record: it is the only museum in the world where, in the same building, it is possible to see a work by Donatello and a work by Masaccio, that is, by the father of Renaissance sculpture a...
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Donatello Contemporary Always. About the Palazzo Strozzi and Bargello exhibition.

One could discuss for hours what Francesco Caglioti writes in the introduction to the catalog of his exhibition Donatello. The Renaissance, when he reiterates that art-historical research tends increasingly to move beyond the approach linked ...
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From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria: a major exhibition on Venetian sculpture in Venice

From April 22 to October 30, 2022, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at Ca' d'Oro in Venice presents a major exhibition dedicated to Venetian sculpture, entitled From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria, 1450 - 1600. 150 Years of Sculpture in the Republic of ...
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Last episode of Wonders: Alberto Angela among the treasures of Padua, Herculaneum and Spoleto

Alberto Angela closes this season of Wonders, the Peninsula of Treasures between Padua, Herculaneum and Spoleto. The episode will air tonight on Rai1 at 9:25 pm. It will start in Padua, from Palazzo della Ragione, one of the city's symbolic places, ...
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Padua, the Equestrian Monument to Gattamelata will be moved to the Basilica Museum. In its place a copy

The famous equestrian statue of Gattamelata, a masterpiece by Donatello that stands in front ofSt. Anthony's Basilica in Padua, will leave its seat after more than five and a half centuries to be transferred to the Basilica Museum; a copy will be pla...
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