0228l-DONATELLO (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) born c. 1386-12/13/1466 was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence, Italy
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Donatello's equestrian monument of Gattamelata, statue of Erasmo da Narni 1450 at Padua, Italy.
Was the son of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, who was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild, he is in part known for his work in basso rilievo a form of shallow relief sculpture that Donatello incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism, more at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatello
works;
St. Mark (1411–1413) Orsanmichele, Florence
St. George Tabernacle (c. 1415–1417) - Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
Prophet Habacuc (1423–1425) - Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence
The Feast of Herod (c. 1425) - Baptismal font, Duomo di Siena
David (c. 1425–1430) - Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
Equestrian Monument of Gattamelata (1445–1450) - Piazza del Santo, Padua
Mary Magdalene (c. 1455) - Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence (photograph)
Judith and Holofernes (1455-1460) - Palazzo Vecchio, Florence