Dec 26, 2009
Article abstract: One of the first great European artists to articulate fully the principles of perspective, Donatello has had an incalculable influence on his successors, who have derived their inspiration from his highly naturalistic and intense dramatizations of the human form.
Donatello’s complete name was Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi. He was the son of a wool carder. Very little is known about his life, except what can be surmised from contemporary records (such as payments to him for commissioned work) and from a biographical...
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