Donato Di Niccolò Di Betto Bardi
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Donato (Donatello is a diminutive form, just as Kenny is for
Kenneth) di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was born in Florence about 1386. He
probably learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working on the
Florence cathedral in about 1400. Between 1404 and 1407 he worked in the
workshop of the Goth ....
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.... raised from a flat surface, called schiacciato,
meaning "flattened out." The carving was extremely shallow with details
executed to catch the light in a pictorial manner rather than deeply carved
figures against relatively plain backgrounds.
Donatello also worked in bronze, beginning in about 1423. The most
important bronze works were 'David', the first large-scale, free-standing
nude statue of the Renaissance; 'Gattamelata' in Padua, the first bronze
equestrian, or man-mounted-on-horse, s ....
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