When it comes to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it seems almost everyone is either on team Raphael or team Michelangelo. Leonardo gets a little bit of love, but almost no one will admit to being a ...

When New York art dealer Andrew Butterfield arrived at the Museum of Fine Arts in the spring of 2013, he carried with him a tantalizing conjecture: An obscure 15th-century sculpture, which the museum ...

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 ...

Do you know who dons the Purple mask? It is Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Armed with superior intellect and a powerful boa staff Donatello is the smartest member of the Teenage ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reimagined for the sleek, glossy underground hangar of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, the ...

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 ...

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BERLIN—Two Davids greet visitors at the entrance to the exhibition “Donatello: Inventor of the Renaissance” in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, and they couldn’t be more different. Having left Florence, Italy ...

The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men. It may be tempting to categorize ...

“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 ...

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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 — ...