For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...

Donatello’s “David” (c. 1435-40) presides over the grand, second-story hall of the Bargello Museum, elevated on a higher base than previously (though one shorter than the sculpture’s original ...

Many of the works in the exhibition, which is due to open in February, are traveling to Britain for the first time. Donatello, David (1408-09; 1416). Photo by Bruno Bruchi; courtesy of Museo Nazionale ...

Every textbook introduction to Renaissance art emphasizes the central importance of two sculptures of David, the youth who killed Goliath and later became king of the Israelites. Both are in Florence, ...

An exhibit in Florence puts the 15th-century sculptor at the epicenter of the Renaissance, presenting a master whose innovations transformed art history. By Elisabetta Povoledo FLORENCE, Italy — ...

Donatello (c.1386-1466) was “the most revolutionary of all Italian sculptors”, said Laura Cumming in The Observer. “Industrious”, “prolific” and long-lived, the Florence-born master is credited with ...

Boston’s museums are usually better than its weather, and they certainly are this winter, with the reopening of the Harvard Art Museums and Goya visiting at the MFA. In the excitement, a small but ...

“Sculpture in the Age of Donatello,” a splendid small show of early-Renaissance Florentine works at the Museum of Biblical Art, on Broadway at Sixty-first Street, impelled me to haul down my very long ...