Donato Di Betto Bardi Analysis

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi, or better known as Donatello, was born in Florence, Italy around 1386 who studied with well-known sculptors who helped him to learn the Gothic Style. Even before he was 20, he became known for his work and went on as the greatest Florentine sculptor before Michelangelo and the most influential individual artist of the 15th century in Italy. Donatello used creative techniques combined with his amazing skills to create figures that incorporated not only a sense of realism, which showed the person’s emotional state using facial and body expressions, but also perspective - allowing a sculptor to create figures that occupied measurable space. His sculpture depicts the body of Jesus Christ being crucified at Calvary on the wooden cross, using perspective to show the size of Christ’s body in proportion to his cross. Donatello’s genius is shown in how life-like he created Jesus’s face and body; the beard, expression of death, and the way the body was hanging off the cross shows how …show more content…
In his mid-twenties, he traveled to Venice and studied under Titian, who was the most renowned painter of his day. Learning from Titian, El Greco mastered many aspects of Renaissance painting such as perspective, constructing figures, and creating detailed narrative scenes. These particular skills were noticed especially in his painting above which depicts a visionary experience and explores the spiritual imagination. Being one of his most amazing works, The Burial of Count Orgad features a perception of heaven and earth together, showcasing the loss of one on earth below as a man lying in a religious man's arms and the patience for the arrival of his soul in heaven with the angels and saints above. This painting stretched El Greco by challenging him to conjure up a great image with many realistic people in a detailed scene while also telling a story of the