Member-only story
Who was Donatello in the Renaissance
The god of bronze-making.
Donatello was actually the Greek god of art and beauty. He’s also the god of bronze-making.
- Full Name: Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi.
- Date of Birth: circa 1386
- Date of Death: 12 Dec 1466
- Focus: Sculpture
- Subjects: Figure
- Hometown: Florence, Italy
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386–13 December 1466), better known as Donatello was a Florentine sculptor of the Renaissance period.
Donatello was a Renaissance-era sculptor.
Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture.
He worked with stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco, and wax, and had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical number.
His best-known works mostly were statues in the round, but he developed a new, very shallow, type of bas-relief for small works, and a good deal of his output was larger architectural reliefs.
Donatello. Madonna, and Child in rilievo staccato or shallow relief.
