Motture, Petra: Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance. Exhibition: London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2023. 288 pages, illustrated in colour. Hardback. 28 x 24cms. Final leg of the largest exhibtion of Donatello's work in 40 years, opened at the Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello in 2022. With a catalogue of the 114 pieces on display at the Victoria & Albert museum, divided in six sections on Florentine foundations, tradition and innovation, bronzes (sacred and secular), Padua and northern Italy, devotion and emotion in the Renaissance and homage to Donatello. Essays discuss Donatello's origins, his patrons, the making and viewing of his sculptures, as well as imitators, copyists and forgers emulating Donatello in the nineteenth century.
Final leg of the largest exhibtion of Donatello's work in 40 years, opened at the Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello in 2022. With a catalogue of the 114 pieces on display at the Victoria & Albert museum, divided in six sections on Florentine foundations, tradition and innovation, bronzes (sacred and secular), Padua and northern Italy, devotion and emotion in the Renaissance and homage to Donatello. Essays discuss Donatello's origins, his patrons, the making and viewing of his sculptures, as well as imitators, copyists and forgers emulating Donatello in the nineteenth century. Text in English