For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...
My ‘Buddy’ System: The Nickname I Vowed Never to Call My Sons A Tale of Two Jurors Tending the Landscapes of Our Imaginations A gorgeous retrospective in Florence only adds luster to the renown of ...
BERLIN—Two Davids greet visitors at the entrance to the exhibition “Donatello: Inventor of the Renaissance” in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, and they couldn’t be more different. Having left Florence, Italy ...
With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring Angel, ...
No Renaissance statue is more famous than Michelangelo’s David, carved at the start of the 16th century. Yet the five-metre-tall nude owes a debt to a much smaller, bronze sculpture that Donato di ...
Nanni di Banco, “St. Luke the Evangelist” (1408–13), marble, and Donatello, “St. John the Evangelist” (1408–15), marble, both of which were in niches alongside the Florence Cathedral’s main portal and ...
Among the great 15th-century Italian artists who became the namesakes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo and Leonardo may be the most popular, and Raphael’s art may be the most ...
One of the most iconic artists of the early Renaissance whose ideas helped revolutionize Western culture forever, Donatello is the subject of a new once-in-a-lifetime survey at the Victoria and Albert ...
Craftsmen should trace the greatness of art to one man, according to 16th-century art historian Giorgio Vasari in his book “The Lives of the Most Celebrated Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.” That ...
Donatello’s “David” (c. 1435-40) presides over the grand, second-story hall of the Bargello Museum, elevated on a higher base than previously (though one shorter than the sculpture’s original ...
An exhibit in Florence puts the 15th-century sculptor at the epicenter of the Renaissance, presenting a master whose innovations transformed art history. By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — ...
An Italian journey – as a blockbuster Donatello show arrives in Florence, this week’s Apollo Art Diary highlights exhibition around the world that trace the story of art in Italy.
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