Approaching the Altar: Donatello's Sculpture in the Santo. From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: Johnson, Geraldine A. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the 1440s, Donatello designed and, with his assistants, executed an imposing high altar complex for the great Paduan pilgrimage church of S. Antonio, a building also known simply as the Santo. The significance of Donatello's project lies not only in its intrinsic technical and artistic merits, but also in its location and the types of beholders who would have encountered it. Due to the presence of the tomb of Saint Anthony (died 1231), an early Franciscan saint, the Santo was (an...

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