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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. ‘David Victorious’ (1408), made from marble, was Donatello’s first major attempt at the biblical hero . . . . .

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The Ricordanze of Giovanni Chellini da San Miniato are terse little comments, on the whole. It was the custom for men of substance in Renaissance Florence to keep a kind of economic diary, mostly a ...

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 — ...