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Renaissance Lives
About This Book
The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of artâone that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes involving human sexuality, violence, spirituality, and beauty. But to really understand Donatello, one needs to understand his changing world, marked by the transition from Medieval to Renaissance style and to an art that was more personal and representative of the modern self. Donatello was not just a man of his times, he helped shape the spirit of the times he lived in and profoundly influenced those that came after.In this beautifully illustrated bookâthe first thorough biography of Donatello in twenty-five yearsâA. Victor Coonin describes the full extent of Donatello's revolutionary contributions, revealing how his work heralded the emergence of modern art.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: A Note to Readers
- 1 Artistic Formation
- 2 The Business of Art
- 3 Adorning the City of Florence
- 4 The Paduan Journey
- 5 Homecoming
- CHRONOLOGY
- REFERENCES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX