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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, 1873

Classification

Metalwork-Electrotype

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

British, after Italian original

Rights

Public Domain

About Donatello

1380–1466Republic of Florence

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 sculpture of the period. Italian sculptor. Comment on works: sculptor