Donatello - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Florence, a major Donatello exhibition in 2022 at Palazzo Strozzi

A major exhibition on Donatello: Running from March 19, 2022 to July 31, 2022, the exhibition Donatello. The Renaissance in the Halls of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, curated by Francesco Caglioti and organized in collaboration with the Bargello Museu...
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A theater of feelings: the Lamentation over the Dead Christ in Lombard Renaissance sculpture

"The narrative of the Italian Renaissance can no longer be solely or predominantly Tuscan-centric," explains Francesca Tasso, curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, a...
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Major exhibition in Milan on Renaissance sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo

From July 21 to October 24, 2021, the Sale Viscontee of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan will host the exhibition Il Corpo e l'Anima, da Donatello a Michelangelo. Italian Renaissance Sculpture, curated by Marc Bormand (curator at the Department ...
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A brutal, verist Renaissance. Donatello's Magdalene

Within the scientifically and rationally defined space of Renaissance perspective throbs the restless soul of man with all its contradictions, weaknesses, and opposites. The reading that Massimo Cacciari offers of fifteenth-century Humanism i...
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