Wall Street Journal

A Donatello Sculpture Exhibition for the Ages

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 ...
Artnet

Donatello’s ‘David’ Will Travel to the V&A for the First Major U.K. Show on This ‘Driving Force Behind the Italian Renaissance’

Many of the works in the exhibition, which is due to open in February, are traveling to Britain for the first time. Donatello, David (1408-09; 1416). Photo by Bruno Bruchi; courtesy of Museo Nazionale ...
The Economist

How Donatello shaped the Renaissance

No Renaissance statue is more famous than Michelangelo’s David, carved at the start of the 16th century. Yet the five-metre-tall nude owes a debt to a much smaller, bronze sculpture that Donato di ...
Artnet

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Donatello Show Argues That Sculpture, Not Painting, Was the Ultimate Renaissance Art Form

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 ...
Washington Examiner

Donatello all in one place

Among the great 15th-century Italian artists who became the namesakes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Michelangelo and Leonardo may be the most popular, and Raphael’s art may be the most ...