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 ...
A blockbuster exhibition in Florence argues that the Italian sculptor deserves to be a household name on par with Michelangelo and Raphael Nora McGreevy - Correspondent "Donatello: The Renaissance" ...
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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 ...
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 ...
If you haven’t visited New York’s Museum of Biblical Art (MoBiA) recently, now is the time to go: the museum is offering a rare, if not once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Renaissance masterpieces here ...
reporting from NEW YORK — Donato di Niccolò Bardi, better known to posterity as Donatello (circa 1386-1466), decamped from Florence, Italy, in 1443 for what turned out to be a decade-long sojourn in ...
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, ...
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 ...
“Are not all portraits a fiction?” asks the opening wall text of “The Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini.” This Antonio del Pollaiuolo "Portrait of a Lady." “Are not all portraits a ...
Most people who didn’t study art history in graduate school can still reel off four superstar Renaissance artists — the titans whose names the cartoon rat Splinter found in a battered art book he ...