Donatello, 1386-1466
/ Rolf C. Wirtz
- Köln : Könemann , 1998
- 120 p. : illus. ; 33 cm
- Masters of Italian art .
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, better known as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture, whose periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy a long and productive career. Financed by Cosimo de' Medici, Donatello's David, was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity.