You may not recognise this name at first, but this was the real name of another of the most famous Italian artists – Donatello, a forerunner of the Italian Renaissance. Donatello, trained in classical sculpture, had a long and successful career creating statues and architectural reliefs throughout Florence, with his sculptures considered supreme expressions of the spirit of the Renaissance.
His most famous piece of work is his bronze David, which is the first known free-standing sculpture since antiquity and the first major sculptural work of the Renaissance.
