Donatello - Renaissance, Sculpture, Padua

Donatello - Renaissance, Sculpture, Padua: In 1443, when Donatello was about to start work on two much more ambitious pairs of bronze doors for the sacristies of the cathedral, he was lured to Padua by a commission for a bronze equestrian statue of a famous Venetian condottiere, Erasmo da Narmi, popularly called Gattamelata (“The Honeyed Cat”), who had died shortly before. Such a project was unprecedented—indeed, scandalous—for bronze equestrian monuments had been the sole prerogative of rulers since the days of the Roman Empire. The execution of the monument was plagued by delays. Donatello did most of the work between 1447 and 1450, yet the

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