Donatello
c. 1386 – 13 December 1466
Florentine sculptor of the early Renaissance whose works in bronze and marble revived classical techniques and expressive realism.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Donatello.
- Cosimo de' Medici (1389–1464) Overlapped 75 years →
- Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) Overlapped 66 years →
- Ewuare the Great (1400–1473) Overlapped 66 years →
- Johannes Gutenberg (1400–1468) Overlapped 66 years →
- Nezahualcoyotl (1402–1472) Overlapped 64 years →
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) Overlapped 62 years →
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Completed the marble Saint George for Orsanmichele
c. 1417
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Completed the bronze David
c. 1440
It was the first freestanding nude statue cast since antiquity.
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