{"id":10015,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10015"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"bargello-museum-to-give-david-by-donatello-a-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/bargello-museum-to-give-david-by-donatello-a-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargello Museum To Give David by Donatello A Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"David by Donatello Gets A Facelift\" alt=\"David by Donatello Gets A Facelift\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/donatello-s-david-09c0388bd184.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David by Donatello, 1430s Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FLORENCE &#8211; June, 2007 &#8211; Curators of the Bargello Museum in Florence have been concerned about the deterioration of the Italian Renaissance sculpture of <em>David<\/em> by Donatello. Therefore, they are going to restore the bronze statue with a state-of-the-art laser cleaning technique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 15th century sculpture of <em>David<\/em> by Donatello is widely considered to be the first significant sculpture of the Italian Renaissance. This is the first restoration of Donatello&#8217;s <em>David<\/em> in a century, and the process will be open to public view as experts perform their magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of lasers ensures that the gilding and the bronze surface of Donatello&#8217;s <em>David<\/em> will be undamaged in the restoration process. The project should be finished by the end of 2008. Donatello executed <em>David<\/em> probably in the early 1430s. Italian Renaissance art patron Cosimo de&#8217; Medici commissioned the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For more information on Italian Renaissance Art and book recommendations, <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=10039\">click here.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLORENCE &#8211; June, 2007 &#8211; Curators of the Bargello Museum in Florence have been concerned about the deterioration of the Italian Renaissance sculpture of David by Donatello. Therefore, they are going to restore the bronze statue with a state-of-the-art laser cleaning technique. The 15th century sculpture of David by Donatello is widely considered to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10251,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/10251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}