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The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art&;one that came to define the Renaissance. His work was progressive, challenging, and even controversial. Using a variety of novel sculptural techniques and innovative interpretations, Donatello uniquely depicted themes (...)

Highly regarded as a Surrealist photographer in the 1930s, Dora Maar was a fellow student with Henri Cartier-Bresson and friends with Brassaï, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, and André Breton, the charismatic leader of the Surrealists. When Maar met Picasso in the mid-1930s, she became the most influential (...)

Probabilmente è una teoria un po' azzardata ma è innegabile che il primo Rinascimento sorse grazie alle sculture di Donatello, capaci di modificare per sempre il modo di ritrarre il soggetto: non più icona immobile ma persona reale, intrappolata nel marmo, nel bronzo o nel legno. Donatello è fra (...)

Starting from 19 March 2022, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello will be hosting Donatello, The Renaissance. This historic, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition sets out to reconstruct the outstanding career of one of the most important and influential masters of Italian art of any (...)