Example sentences for: donatello

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  • Brunelleschi is at his most elegant in the Old Sacristy at the end of the left transept (site of a few Medici tombs), decorated with four Donatello wall-medallions (the artist himself is buried in the left transept).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Donatello has sculpted a fine polychrome wood St. John the Baptist for his compatriots’ Florentine Chapel, to the right of the altar.


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