Sprite
1432
Medium
High-copper alloy, fire-gilt, brown natural patina where exposed
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 24 1/4 × 8 1/8 × 11 3/4 in., 30 lb. (61.6 × 20.6 × 29.8 cm, 13.6 kg)
Classification
Sculpture-Bronze
Culture
Italian, Florence
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Samuel Reed Gift, Rogers Fund, by exchange, and Louis V. Bell Fund, 1983
Accession Number
1983.356
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...