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Donatello

1386 - 1466

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Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c. 1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (English: ; Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture. He spent time in other cities, where he worked on commissions and taught others; his periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy the techniques he had developed in the course of a long and productive career. His David was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity; like much of his work it was commissioned by the Medici family. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Donatello is the 23rd most popular painter (up from 24th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Painter.

Donatello is most famous for his bronze sculpture of David.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Donatello ranks 23 out of 2,023. Before him are Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Giotto. After him are Titian, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and Édouard Manet.

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Among people born in 1386, Donatello ranks 1. After him are Mehmed I, Henry V of England, John of Capistrano, Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria, An-Nasir Faraj, Ambrose Traversari, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, and Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1466, Donatello ranks 1. After him are Francesco I Sforza, Hacı I Giray, Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, Isabel of Barcelos, Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves, Peter, Constable of Portugal, Johann Fust, and Isotta Nogarola.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Donatello ranks 52 out of 5,161. Before him are Brutus the Younger (-85), Ötzi (-3345), Pope Urban VII (1521), Giotto (1267), Pope Clement VII (1478), and Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938). After him are Tiberius (-42), Horace (-65), Pope Gregory XVI (1765), Sulla (-138), Titian (1488), and Maria Montessori (1870).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Donatello ranks 6. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), Raphael (1483), Caravaggio (1571), Sandro Botticelli (1445), and Giotto (1267). After him are Titian (1488), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526).

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