{"id":10033,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"donatello-sculpture-of-gattamelata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/donatello-sculpture-of-gattamelata\/","title":{"rendered":"Donatello Sculpture of Gattamelata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Donatello sculpture of Gattamelata\" alt=\"Donatello sculpture of Gattamelata\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gattamelata-small-b5c3939cea3e.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Donatello Sculpture of Gattamelata ca. 1447, bronze. Basilica of Sant&#8217;Antonio, Padua<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Donatello sculpture ca. 1447 of famous Venetian <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#condottiere\">condottiere<\/a>, Erasmo da Narmi, was popularly called <em>Gattamelata<\/em> (The Honeyed Cat). This Donatello sculpture was very controversial at the time of its creation as it was an equestrian monument glorifying a man who was <em>just a man<\/em>, <em>not a ruler<\/em>, such works always previously being executed solely for rulers. <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Donatello sculpture is a magnificent equestrian statue of the mercenary who led Venetian forces to defeat Milan. Gattamelata&#8217;s figure is posed astride his great bronze horse wearing classical-inspired armor with a baton raised in his right hand, reminiscent of the Roman Emperor <em>Marcus Aurelius Equestrian Statue<\/em> in the piazza of <em>St. Peter<\/em>&#8216;s in Rome. The Donatello sculpture of <em>Gattamelata<\/em> can be found in Padua on its high pedestal in front of the <em>Basilica of Sant&#8217;Antonio<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Donatello sculpture ca. 1447 of famous Venetian condottiere, Erasmo da Narmi, was popularly called Gattamelata (The Honeyed Cat). This Donatello sculpture 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, such works always previously being executed solely [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","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=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10263,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions\/10263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}