Donatello Renaissance
What's your favorite movie? Mine is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and if you’re a big fan you should know that the they were anthropomorphic turtles named after Renaissance Italian finest artists. These artist were known for sculptures. These fine artists were Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and my favorite Donatello. The renaissance, which means rebirth” has taken place around the 1350 through 1550 and spread through southern France and Spain. The renaissance was also known as the most creative periods. In this period of time it focused on bringing education.
Donatello was born in 1386 in FLorence, Italy. Donatello was his nickname, his full name is Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi. Donatello was the greatest …show more content…
With that family, Donatello was being trained artistically and learned the types of materials for sculpting. There wasn't anything such spectacular about Donatello in his early life. Opportunities just came to him. Donatello started out small, nothing to big at first. One of the first things he did was join and assisted Ghiberti in creating the cathedral doors. Ghiberti was known to be another great artist, but he was best known as making or inventing the bronze doors of Florence Baptistery, which was called by Michelangelo, another Italian sculpture, the Gates of Paradise. He was better than his biggest competition, Filippo Brunelleschi, another amazing artist but not as good as Donatello nor Ghiberti. Donatello from this point was said, Ghiberti and Donate grew a very good friendship. As Donatello grew his passion for sculpting and art, he went and traveled to Rome to study the classic of art …show more content…
Donatello's gothic style was seen more in his early life. In Donatello's early work, 1408, was back working cathedral. In the exact same year Donatello made a life-sized made out of marble sculpture, which was David. Also, which was in a gothic style, of course now in style. Donatello has been working with classical art his facial looks were extravagant. This all happened before Donatello was 20 years young. Donatello was supposed to purposely place the sculpture in the cathedral, but was placed instead in the town hall, Palazzo Vecchio. The reason for this is because they, the people, thought it was an inspirational or great belief that it was a symbol of strength to Florentines, who had a great amount of weakness with the King of Naples in that period. This made him get out more and started getting recognized.As he realized this, he started to get more to the emotional facial expressions, the more classical dramatic in the style of his own. Because of this Donatello started creating more and more sculptures like St. Mark and St. John. But after Donatello made and created those two gothic style sculptures he wanted to go for the more classical art technique. With all his work with amazing passionate techniques for sculpting, all this practice has made him make sculptures so huge! The sculptures were bigger and larger than actual human beings and took up huge amount of space.
What's your favorite movie? Mine is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and if you’re a big fan you should know that the they were anthropomorphic turtles named after Renaissance Italian finest artists. These artist were known for sculptures. These fine artists were Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and my favorite Donatello. The renaissance, which means rebirth” has taken place around the 1350 through 1550 and spread through southern France and Spain. The renaissance was also known as the most creative periods. In this period of time it focused on bringing education.
Donatello was born in 1386 in FLorence, Italy. Donatello was his nickname, his full name is Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi. Donatello was the greatest …show more content…
With that family, Donatello was being trained artistically and learned the types of materials for sculpting. There wasn't anything such spectacular about Donatello in his early life. Opportunities just came to him. Donatello started out small, nothing to big at first. One of the first things he did was join and assisted Ghiberti in creating the cathedral doors. Ghiberti was known to be another great artist, but he was best known as making or inventing the bronze doors of Florence Baptistery, which was called by Michelangelo, another Italian sculpture, the Gates of Paradise. He was better than his biggest competition, Filippo Brunelleschi, another amazing artist but not as good as Donatello nor Ghiberti. Donatello from this point was said, Ghiberti and Donate grew a very good friendship. As Donatello grew his passion for sculpting and art, he went and traveled to Rome to study the classic of art …show more content…
Donatello's gothic style was seen more in his early life. In Donatello's early work, 1408, was back working cathedral. In the exact same year Donatello made a life-sized made out of marble sculpture, which was David. Also, which was in a gothic style, of course now in style. Donatello has been working with classical art his facial looks were extravagant. This all happened before Donatello was 20 years young. Donatello was supposed to purposely place the sculpture in the cathedral, but was placed instead in the town hall, Palazzo Vecchio. The reason for this is because they, the people, thought it was an inspirational or great belief that it was a symbol of strength to Florentines, who had a great amount of weakness with the King of Naples in that period. This made him get out more and started getting recognized.As he realized this, he started to get more to the emotional facial expressions, the more classical dramatic in the style of his own. Because of this Donatello started creating more and more sculptures like St. Mark and St. John. But after Donatello made and created those two gothic style sculptures he wanted to go for the more classical art technique. With all his work with amazing passionate techniques for sculpting, all this practice has made him make sculptures so huge! The sculptures were bigger and larger than actual human beings and took up huge amount of space.