DETAILS
- Artist
- Donatello
- Date
- 1400
- Medium
- Figures: terracotta, polychromed and gilded; later background: wood, painted to represent brocade; frame: carved and painted, mouldings gilt
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Overall: 30 × 20 1/2 in. (76.2 × 52.1 cm)
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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.