Donatello :: Biography

Donatello was born(p) in Florence, Italy in1386. The full name of Donatello is Donato di Niccolo di Belto Bardi (Donatello par 1, 2, 3). His dad was a sheepskin comber (Donatello par 1, 2). There was not much information found on his mom. He had a foremost job and that in the workshop of Lerenzo Ghilberti, a gothic sculptor, amongst 1404 and 1407(Donatello par 1, 2, 3). After that job he worked at a Florence Cathedral in 1407. At the Cathedral he ornament tombs and pulpits and made portrait busts and monuments (Donatello par 1, 2). An inspiration for his work was by superannuated visual examples (Donatello par 1). He achieved his full intensity in the arising of the 15th century (Donatello par 1, 2, and 3). In the later part of his demeanor he studied Roman Ruins and became a Humanist (Blood par 1).In Donatellos lifetime he had many accomplishments weather it was sculpting or on the button grand acquirements. Donatello sent a while on his famous sculptor, deification Georg e, which was sculpted from 1416 to about 1420(ward par 2, 3, 4). 1428 was when the town put up a ancient Roman Pillar in the market place and that they asked him to imbibe a statue because they believed he was the best sculptor(Morley 13,18). One of the monuments he created was Padua and he created that between 1443 and 1453. A well know sculptor of his was the statue Zuccone which people say showed the sound use of realism(Ward par 2,3,4).Donatello created many dye sculptures. A huge achievement was his gilt bronze Herods feast. Another gilt bronze he made was St. Louis of Toulouse sculpture. One huge milestone was he made the first freestanding bronze naked bronze sculpture (Lewine par 2, 4). He designed twin bronze pulpit for San Lorenzo. The most important bronze sculpture was David was his first free-standing nude statue of the renaissance (Donatello par 2, 4).A huge famous sculpture he did was Gattamelata. That statue was supposed to represent a no ruler (Donatello par 2, 4) . His statue called St. George was so good that even Michelangelo complemented it (Hale 109). John pope Henessy, a great author, he noted that he was one of the great sculptors that ever lived. Following his sculptor called St. Gorge, he made St.Gorge and the dragon. St George was his first assay at portraying a three dimensional scene on a flat surface (Donatello par 5, 7).