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 ...
Abitare

Dante at the Bargello

After the delays caused by the pandemic, in May the Museo Nazionale del Bargello can finally commemorate the seven hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri with the exhibition Onorevole e ...
The Art Newspaper

The Big Review: Donatello in Florence

Donatello the revolutionary—this is the simple idea behind this genuinely once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of Donatello’s works at Florence’s Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Musei del Bargello. Not just ...
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 ...
The Art Newspaper

First major Donatello exhibition in nearly 40 years to open in Florence

In his own time, the 15th-century Florentine sculptor Donatello was regarded as “the master of masters”, an artist so technically skilled in a range of materials, so expert at creating the illusion of ...
Mena FN

Donatello exhibition is to open in Florence

The Renaissance master is“more important than Giotto, Raphael or Caravaggio” say the curators of the show, which will travel to Berlin and London. In his own time, the 15th-century Florentine sculptor ...