Donatello: The Renaissance Tapa dura -

2022. 456 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback 30 x 26cms. ISBN: 9791254630068. More than 50 works by Donatello are brought together in the largest display to date, devised as a single exhibition in two venues (Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Nazionale del Bargello). The catalogue discusses Donatello in terms of his materials, techniques and genres, in dialogue with pieces by Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. 131 works are presented in sections on terracotta, statues and persons, sculpted and painted space, spiritelli, works for Prato, the Gates of San Lorenzo, art in Florence and Padua, the Renaissance between the Po Valley and the Adriatic, Tuscany, old age and great bronzes, the Bargello 'Saint George', 'Marzocco' and 'David', Donatello in the mirror of the Modern Manner and the centuries of the Dudley Madonna. The exhibition will travel to Berlin and London in 2023 and each venue is set to have a different catalogue. Text in English.