Donatello
![Donatello, an imagined 16th-century portrait by an unknown artist<ref>{{cite web |title=Cinq maîtres de la Renaissance florentine : Giotto, Uccello, Donatello, Manetti, Brunelleschi |trans-title=Five masters of the Florentine renaissance |author=Unknown master |website=[[Le Louvre]] |date=19 December 2023 |url=https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065510}}</ref> (The former attribution to [[Paolo Uccello]] is no longer accepted.)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Cinq_ma%C3%AEtres_de_la_Renaissance_florentine_Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre_Peintures_INV_267_-_Donatello.jpg)
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 typical number.Ref. ? Although his best-known works are mostly statues executed in the round, he developed a new, very shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a good deal of his output was architectural reliefs for pulpits, altars and tombs, as well as ''Madonna and Child''s for homes.
Broad, overlapping, phases can be seen in his style, beginning with the development of expressiveness and classical monumentality in statues, then developing energy and charm, mostly in smaller works. Early on he veered away from the International Gothic style he learned from Lorenzo Ghiberti, with classically informed pieces, and further on a number of stark, even brutal pieces. The sensuous eroticism of his most famous work, the bronze ''David'', is very rarely seen in other pieces. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 1958
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