Johannes de Doper
Donatello
in or before 1908
Medium
casting
Dimensions
18
About this artwork
Aankoop met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt
About the Artist
Donatello · 1380–1466
Important and very influential Florentine sculptor in the media of marble, bronze, and wood. Although he himself was not not a cultured intellectual (as was typical for artists of his generation and earlier), he associated with early Renaissance humanists in Florence, Rome, and Padua. In his art, he made new references to Antique forms, and to this added new expressive and technical virtuousity to...