1st+Period+-+Donatello

=1st Period - Donatello= By:Jasmine S.



Date of birth: 1386

Location of birth: Florence,Italy

Parents’ names: Niccolo di Betto di Bardo

Family background: Donatello real name was Donato. His father was a wool comber. At 17 he was working in the studio of Lorenzo Ghiberti where he assisted in finishing the famous bronze north doors.

Date of death: Dec 13,1466

Location of death/grave: Toscana,Italy

Education: Donatello learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the cathedral of Florence about 1400. Sometime between 1404 and 1407 he became a member of the workshop of Lorenzo Ghiberti, a sculptor in bronze who in 1402 had won the competition for the doors of the Florentine baptistery.

Career: Donatello served as a assistant to a sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti from 1416 to 1420. He carved the staute of a prophet which he created the monument in Padua between 1443 and 1453.

Legacy: Donatello was the most important Italian sculptors of the 15th century. He worked in an assured and often dramatic style that was based on a excelled at many kinds of sculptors, pioneering new techniques and reviving classical forms.

Additional/Interesting information: Donatello was the greatest sculptor of the 15th century. He influenced both the realms of sculpture and painting throughout that century and beyond. For the base of St.George Donatello invented a totally new kind of relief, or sculpture raised from a flat surface, called schiacciato, meaning flattened out. Donatello was never married.

Sources Cited (Donatello – 1st Period)

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