Donatello

Donato di Niccol di Betto Bardi , better known as Donatello , was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence. He studied classical sculpture, and used this to develop a fully Renaissance style in sculpture, whose periods in Rome, Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy a long and productive career. He worked in stone, bronze, wood, clay, stucco and wax, and had several assistants, with four perhaps being a typical number. Though his bestknown works were mostly statues in the round, he developed a new, very shallow, type of basrelief for small works, and a good deal of his output was larger architectural reliefs.

Donatello was the son of Niccol di Betto Bardi, who was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild, and was born in Florence, most likely in the year 1386. Donatello was educated in the house of the Martelli family. He apparently received his early artistic training in a goldsmiths workshop, and then worked briefly in the studio of Lorenzo Ghiberti.

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