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Updated February 06, Featured Video. Cite this Article Format. Snell, Melissa. These innovations in burial chambers would influence many later Florentine tombs. In , the eminent art patron commissioned Donatello to do another statue of David, this time in bronze. The sculpture is fully independent of any architectural surroundings that might support it.
Standing a little over five feet tall, David represents an allegory of civic virtue triumphing over brutality and irrationality. In , Donatello was called to the city of Padua by the family of the famous mercenary Erasmo da Narni, who had died earlier that year.
In , Donatello completed a bronze statue called Gattamelata , showing Erasmo riding a horse in full battle dress, minus a helmet. This was the first equestrian statue cast in bronze since the Romans. The sculpture created some controversy, as most equestrian statues were reserved for rulers or kings, not mere warriors. This work became the prototype for other equestrian monuments created in Italy and Europe in the following centuries. By , Donatello had returned to Florence and completed Magdalene Penitent , a statue of a gaunt-looking Mary Magdalene.
Commissioned by the convent at Santa Maria di Cestello, the work was probably intended to provide comfort and inspiration to the repentant prostitutes at the convent. Donatello continued his work taking on commissions from wealthy patrons of the arts. His lifelong friendship with the Medici family earned him a retirement allowance to live on the rest of his life. An unfinished work was faithfully completed by his student Bertoldo di Giovanni. We strive for accuracy and fairness.
If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. One of the most important early Renaissance sculptors, Ghiberti is best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence.
From to , Donatello worked in the northern Italian city of Padua. There he designed a monumental sculpted high altarpiece for the church known as the Santo.
Although now dismantled, the overwhelming effect of this sacra conversazione of saints surrounding the Virgin and Child , with narrative scenes set below as on a predella, can readily be imagined. In Padua, he also created a great bronze equestrian statue of the military commander Gattamelata erected , a revival of an ancient Roman type , and the first such sculpture to come down from the Renaissance.
Donatello spent his old age in Florence, often working for the Medici. The twisting, heroic bronze group Judith Slaying Holofernes Palazzo Vecchio, Florence was originally in their palace, and they were also the patrons of the dramatic bronze reliefs that narrate the Passion of Christ on the pulpits in San Lorenzo unfinished at his death. Donatello influenced Italian sculptors, notably Michelangelo, well into the sixteenth century.
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