Mirror case
19th century, after ca. 1450 original
Medium
Bronze, inlaid with gold and silver
Dimensions
Overall: 11 × 7 3/4 in. (27.9 × 19.7 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Electrotype
Culture
British, after Italian original
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 1873
Accession Number
73.8.31
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...