Donatello
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- proper noun
- In the house of Cosimo de' Medici lived the great sculptor Donatello, making sculptures of marble and bronze, as well as painters and poets galore, writers on magic, and makers of music.
- the artist Donatello
- Brunelleschi and Donatello
Examples
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Donatello and Raphael.
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To you brothers, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo...
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Rosso recovered an aspect of Donatello that can hardly be said to be part of an official program of reinventing Florentine tradition.
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Another recent view relates Rosso's anatomical imagery to a more general "revival of Donatello" in Florence after 1512, and hence to the domain of Florentine cultural politics after the return of the Medici.
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63. Capable of harshness with lesser men, he is invariably generous to his friends—Donatello, Brunelleschi, Raphael, Michelangelo.
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But in the 1420s, he also had personal and professional ties with other leading goldsmiths in Florence, as well as with Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Lorenzo Ghiberti, and Michelozzo.
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Once complete, Santa Maria del Fiore was decorated by artists like Donatello.
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Among its treasures, the Bargello has world-famous pieces by Michelangelo and Donatello's equally world-famous bronze of David.
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Donatello was a prominent Italian sculptor of the early Renaissance, known for his remarkable attention to detail.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Donatello is an Italian name from Donato and the Latin donatus, which mean 'given' or 'gift', and the ending -ello makes it a small or 'little' form. So you can think of Donatello as a 'little gift', and the same root is in the English words donate and donor, which helps you remember the name.