“Donatello was one of the greatest artists who ever lived.” That remark—made in a speech at the Detroit Institute of Arts in connection with a recent exhibition of Donatello’s sculpture—would elicit ...

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...

Nanni di Banco, “St. Luke the Evangelist” (1408–13), marble, and Donatello, “St. John the Evangelist” (1408–15), marble, both of which were in niches alongside the Florence Cathedral’s main portal and ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, may have a new masterpiece. This putto sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is now believed to be by Donatello. Photo: Otis Norcross Fund, courtesy the Museum ...

The UK’s forthcoming Donatello exhibition will capture the Florentine artist’s revolutionary genius for perspective, male beauty and, above all, empathy A startling figure has arrived in Britain: a ...

Donatello’s “David” (c. 1435-40) presides over the grand, second-story hall of the Bargello Museum, elevated on a higher base than previously (though one shorter than the sculpture’s original ...

For the first time in Germany, a major exhibition in Berlin celebrates one of the art world's most important sculptors and one of the Renaissance's founders. The son of a wool merchant, Donato di ...

The Ricordanze of Giovanni Chellini da San Miniato are terse little comments, on the whole. It was the custom for men of substance in Renaissance Florence to keep a kind of economic diary, mostly a ...