Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi

Donatello, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Pablo Picasso.
There is some of name that we used to hear or seen everywhere. Well, there all names of a person who create a phenomenon in arts world. They all was “The Man” that had contributed lot of creative paintings and arts. So, let’s find out about their lifes and history of their arts ;)
We started with Donatello, who is the most famous artist in year 1386 to 1466. According to totallyhistory.com (n.d), Donatello was Renaissance artist born in Florence, Italy. Which is, we call “Bel Paese” which means the beautiful country. Besides there has other nicknames for this country such as “ la Penisola” and “lo stivale”. Furthermore, Donatello was famous through his famous artwork in bas relief, which is a type of ahdow relief sculpture. Some of his artworks are St. Mark, Zuccone, Thefeast of Herod, David, Equestrian Monument ofGattamelata, and Judithand Holofernes. Let’s we go through one of his artworks which is Zuccone. The reason I choose his Zuccone arts is because I know people will curious what is he means by Zuccone is. According to totallyhistory.com (n.d), Zuconne is a statue that was created by him for the Florence Cathedral in year 1423 to 1425. He made it from marble and he known this Zuccone as Prophet Habbakuk. Besides, Donatello are expecting this statue to come to life because he did said “speak,speak” while creating this Zuccone. Plus, Zuccone was one of the statue that Donatello enjoyed the most. 
Zuccone, Picture source from: http://totallyhistory.com/zuccone/


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