Donatello biography

Italian Renaissance sculptor

This article is about the artist. For other references, see Donatello (disambiguation).

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (;^[2]Italian:[donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.^[a] Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture.

He spent time in other cities, where he worked on commissions and taught others; his periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy the techniques he had developed in the course of a long and productive career.

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His David was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity; like much of his work it was commissioned by the Medici family.

He worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco, and wax, and used glass in inventive ways.

He had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typ