Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, and Museo nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy, March 19-July 31, 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-453).
Contents:
Donatello / Francesco Caglioti -- The life of Donatello / Francesco Caglioti -- Catalogue of works. The beginnings -- Terracotta : New ideas in an ancient material -- Statues and persons -- Sculpted space, painted space -- The return of the spiritelli -- For Prato -- The gates of San Lorenzo -- Between Florence and Padua -- Ten years in Padua : The Renaissance between the Po Valley and the Adriatic -- In Tuscany again -- Old age and the great bronzes -- At the Bargello, around the Saint George, Marzocco and David -- Donatello in the mirror of the modern manner -- The centuries of the Dudley Madonna.
Summary:
A beautiful appraisal of the Renaissance sculptor's achievements, contextualized with works by his contemporaries The first thorough overview of the artist in many years, Donatello: The Renaissance reconstructs the outstanding career of one of the greatest sculptors in Western art. Famed for his incredibly sensual sculpture of David--the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity--Donatello (c. 1386-1466) also made reliefs, but was best known for statues in the round. Accompanying a truly historic exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence, and featuring a wealth of color plates of the artist's key works, this volume also contextualizes Donatello's innovations by juxtaposing them with masterpieces by other Renaissance masters such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. These revelatory, expert juxtapositions help define Donatello's style: for example, comparison of his Madonna col Bambino relief with Giovanni di Pietro da Pisa's Madonna col Bambino shows how Donatello eschewed decorative gestures (such as putti, garlands and vases) in favor of a more vital simplification of form. -- Publisher description.
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