Donatello's Gattamelata and its humanist audience *.(Critical Essay)

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

Italian Renaissance sculpture frequently demonstrates the re-discovery of classical antiquity. (1) In the Renaissance the influence of Greek art was almost always filtered through Roman copies. But there may have been instances when Renaissance sculptors consciously encountered the art of classical Greece and recognized it as an aesthetic form sui generis. (2) This essay addresses the impact of Greek, Roman, and humanist sources -- visual and literary -- upon Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata and its audiences at Padua. (3) (Fig. 1)

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