Donatello

Cantoria (Choir Gallery) Detail, Donatello, 1439, Marble, 348 x 570 cm Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, Italy

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Donatello is reputed to have been a lover of antique art, although he was not known to be an intellectual. As a skilled artisan in both marble and bronze, he demanded a certain amount of artistic freedom. Some of Donatello's works feature classical Roman lettering, some of the earliest surviving examples of an interest in this revival. Donatello made full use of Brunelleschi's new invention of scientific linear perspective.

Brenda Harness, Art Historian

• Donatello's David
  Donatello's David, a bronze sculpture executed ca. 1425-1430, is the first large-scale, free-standing nude statue of the Renaissance.
  
  
• Donatello Sculpture of Gattamelata
  This Donatello sculpture of Gattamelata was very controversial at the time of its creation as it was an equestrian monument glorifying a man who was just a man, not a ruler