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The General Council Hall (Sala del Consiglio Generale) is dominated by the works of Donatello: his vigorous St. George (1416), intended for the Orsanmichele (see page 81); his important David, naked and restless in bronze (1450); and the stone Marzocco lion, the town’s symbol, from the Palazzo Vecchio.
The entrance to the important Piazza del Santo south of the city center is guarded by Donatello’s grand statue of Gattamelata, the 15th-century Venetian condottiere Erasmo da Narni, perfect ideal of a Renaissance hero, whose “honeyed cat” nickname still mystifies historians.
Originals of Donatello’s sculpture are kept in the cathedral’s own newly renovated museum, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Piazza del Duomo, 9) as well as Michelangelo’s unfinished Pietà.
In a chapel in the left transept, the wooden Crucifixion by Donatello (1425) is in affecting naturalistic contrast to the Renaissance idealism of the time.
To the left of its entrance is a copy of Donatello’s Marzocco, Florence’s heraldic lion, next to his bronze of Judith and Holofernes, which always made the Medici uneasy with its theme of a tyrant decapitated.