DETAILS
- Artist
- Donatello
- Date
- 1435
- Medium
- bronze with traces of gilding
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture
- Italy
- Credit line
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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THE ARTIST
Donatello
1386–1466 · Republic of FlorenceDonatello, a pioneering Florentine sculptor, brought classical monumentality and expressiveness back to art, creating the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity with his bronze David.