Art Bites 161: Donatello and Early Renaissance Statues
About the Episode
The sculptor Donatello gave his subjects unprecedented realism and emotion from Mary Magdalene carved in wood to his bronze “David,” a free-standing male nude decorating not a church but a rich patron’s courtyard.
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