It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

Bardot was awarded a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign actress for the role.

It was also around this time that Paolo began his lifelong friendship with Donatello.

In 1444 he was also at work in Padua, and he travelled to Padua again in 1445 at Donatello ’ s invitation.

Uccello was married to Tommasa Malifici by 1453, because in that year Donato ( named after Donatello ) was born, and in 1456 his wife gave birth to Antonia.

In these years Donatello was also working in Pisa at a monument for Cardinal Rinaldo Brancacci, to be sent to Naples.

One of those statues had been made by Donatello in 1410, a figure of Joshua made of terracotta, and a second, also a terracotta, but this time of Hercules, was commissioned from the Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio in 1463 ; scholars suggest that Agostino was working under Donatello's direction.

Classical contrapposto was revived in the Renaissance by the Italian artists Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci, followed by Michelangelo, Raphael and other artists of the High Renaissance.

Loren's performance was awarded with a David di Donatello award, the seventh in her career.

The presence of the university attracted many distinguished artists, such as Giotto, Fra Filippo Lippi and Donatello ; and for native art there was the school of Francesco Squarcione, whence issued the great Mantegna.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi ( circa 1386 – December 13, 1466 ), also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor from Florence.

Donatello was the son of Niccolò di Betto Bardi, who was a member of the Florentine Wool Combers Guild, and was born in Florence, most likely in the year 1386.

Donatello was educated in the house of the Martelli family.

Donatello had also sculpted a tabernacle for this work, but it was sold in 1460 to house the Incredulity of St. Thomas by Verrocchio.

The historian Paul Strathern makes the claim that Donatello made no secret of his homosexuality, and that his behaviour was tolerated by his friends.

When Cosimo was exiled from Florence, Donatello went to Rome, remaining until 1433.

This work, a passionate, pagan, rhythmically-conceived bacchanalian dance of half-nude putti, was the forerunner of the great Cantoria, or singing tribune, at the Duomo in Florence on which Donatello worked intermittently from 1433 to 1440 and was inspired by ancient sarcophagi and Byzantine ivory chests.

In 1443, Donatello was called to Padua by the heirs of the famous condottiero Erasmo da Narni, who had died that year.

Donatello died in Florence in 1466 and was buried in the Basilica of San Lorenzo, next to Cosimo de ' Medici the Elder.

was also honored abroad: the film won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in Japan, Cinema Writers Circle Awards in Spain, César Awards in France, and David di Donatello in Italy.

The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, and is pursued by a mysterious, threatening man who is her " evil genius " through life ; Hilda, an innocent copyist who is compared to the Virgin Mary and the white dove, and whose simple, unbendable moral principles can make her severe in spite of her tender heart ; Kenyon, a sculptor, who represents rationalist humanism ; and Donatello, the Count of Monte Beni, who is compared to Adam, and amazingly resembles the Faun of Praxiteles ; the novel plays with the characters ' belief that the count may be a descendant of the antique Faun, with Hawthorne withholding a definite statement even in the novel's concluding chapter.

Donatello promised to make adjustments, so he covered the statue with a cloth, set the statue in the niche above the street, and without touching the statue for 15 days, once again revealed it to the guild.

Because this was such a scandalous idea at the time, Donatello put some shifts on the subject matter that could explain away the identity of David as " just another sculpture ".

Later in the issue, Donatello states that he is " familiar with some computer systems " and helps April O ' Neil deactivate the Mousers.

He went into a state of berserk animal rage because of it, but with some guidance by an inner manifestation of Master Splinter, he regained his original mentality and later assisted Donatello and Casey Jones in tracking down the vampires who attacked him.

It is interesting to note that Michelangelo is the only Turtle who did not end up disfigured in some way in this series ; Leonardo lost his left hand and had it replaced by a steel cap with a retractable blade, Raphael was facially disfigured after being shot in the face, and Donatello was transformed into a cyborg after being shot and thrown out of a helicopter.

The idea of the Renaissance has come under increased criticism by many cultural historians, and some have contended that the " English Renaissance " has no real tie with the artistic achievements and aims of the Italian artists ( Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Donatello ) who are closely identified with the Renaissance.

The idea of the Renaissance has come under increased criticism by many cultural historians, and some have contended that the " English Renaissance " has no real tie with the artistic achievements and aims of the northern Italian artists ( Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello ) who are closely identified with the Renaissance.

* Donatello ( voiced by Barry Gordon and Greg Berg for some episodes of Season 3 and the European Vacation sideseason ) – The purple-masked turtle, wields a Bō staff.

Squarcialupi was part of the court of Lorenzo de ' Medici, and was also a colleague of Guillaume Dufay ; there are numerous laudatory references to him in the middle of the 15th century, some, for instance that of diarist Luca Landucci, comparing him in stature to figures such as the sculptor Donatello.

In 1411 – 1413, Donatello worked on a statue of St. Mark for the church of Orsanmichele.

Donatello commissioned to carve a statue of David in 1408.

Most scholars assume the statue was commissioned by Cosimo de ' Medici, but the date of its creation is unknown and widely disputed ; suggested dates vary from the 1420s to the 1460s ( Donatello died in 1466 ), with the majority opinion recently falling in the 1440s, when the new Medici Palace designed by Michelozzo was under construction.

One has been to suggest that Donatello was homosexual and that he was expressing that sexual attitude through this statue.

What is certain in this statue is that Donatello has not followed any traditions, and the representation is far from bland.

Donatello became renowned as the greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance, his masterpieces being his Humanist and unusually erotic statue of David, one of the icons of the Florentine republic, and his great monument to Gattamelata, the first large equestrian bronze to be created since Roman times.

After the Romans, no surviving monumental equestrian bronze was cast in Europe until Donatello achieved the heroic bronze equestrian statue of the condottiere Gattamelata, in Padua, executed in 1445 – 1450.

For Donatello's equestrian statue, see Gattamelata ( Donatello )

A statue by Donatello and a portrait by Antonio del Pollaiuolo remain to commemorate a citizen who chiefly for his services to humanistic literature deserved the notice of posterity.

After its lengthy restoration, the ( original ) statue " Judith and Holofernes " by Donatello was given a prominent place in this room in 1988.

The transept also includes two Baroque altarpieces, one of which includes a good 14th-century statue of the Virgin, often attributed to Silvestro dell ' Aquila, a pupil of Donatello.

Image: Firenze. PalVecchio. Donatello. JPG | Donatello's statue Judith and Holofernes