Donatello

Description: Marble, detail.

Description: Marble, height cm 188. Executed in 1421. Group carved for the Campanile of the Duomo in collaboration with Nanni di Bartolo, known as il Rosso.

Description: Bronze, detail of the second pulpit, height cm 65. Datable to 1461.

Bronze, detail of the figure of Saint Francis, height about cm 40, about 1448. -

Description: Marble, height cm 191. Commissioned from the artist by the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in 1408. It was then moved to Palazzo Vecchio in 1416 and partially reworked.

Description: Bronze, height cm 158, about 1440 for Cosimo de' Medici.

Description: Marble, detail of the head of Goliath.

Description: Bronze, detail of the head.

Description: Bronze, detail of the first pulpit, height about cm 75. The two pulpits were commissioned by Cosimo the Elder around 1461 and made with the help of several assistants, including Bertoldo and Bartolomeo Bellano.

Description: Bronze, height cm 104.

Description: Detail of the prophet's head.

Description: Marble, height cm 191. One of the Prophets executed between 1423 and 1425 for Giotto's Campanile, commissioned by the Arte della Lana.

Description: Marble, detail, height about cm 30.

Description: Bronze, height cm 180. Executed between 1445 and 1460. The work was commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici to celebrate Medici power and later became a civic emblem, the symbol of the Republic overthrowing tyrants.

Description: Bronze, detail of the head of Holofernes. Executed between 1455 and 1460.

Description: Gilded bronze, height cm 60. The panel was executed for the baptismal font of the Baptistery of Siena between 1423 and 1427.

Description: Bronze, detail of the bust of the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as Gattamelata.

Description: Bronze, height about cm 340. Commissioned by the heirs of the condottiere, who died in 1443 in the service of the Venetian Republic.

Description: Bronze, height cm 57, detail of the altar of the Santo. Donatello worked on the statues and reliefs of the altar with his collaborators between 1446 and 1450.

Marble, height cm 41, bas-relief.

Description: Marble bas-relief, height cm 74,5, datable to 1422.

Description: Bronze. Detail of the altar of the Santo, height about cm 150. Executed in 1448. The sculptures are set within an architectural structure also designed by Donatello.

Description: Marble, bronze and mosaic. Executed between 1433 and 1439. A work by Donatello, who made the panels with the dance of the putti, and by the architect Michelozzo Michelozzi.

Description: Marble, detail of the cantoria originally placed in the Duomo, dismantled in 1668 and reassembled in the museum after 1883.

Description: Bronze, detail from the relief on the Second Pulpit, height about cm 60 about 1461.

Description: Marble. Detail of the head.

Description: Marble, height cm 209. Executed about 1417, commissioned by the Arte dei Corazzai for an outer niche of Orsanmichele.

Description: Golden bronze, detail.