Donatello
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
DONATELLO don tel o, Ital. donatel lo, c.1386 1466, Italian sculptor, major innovator in Renaissance art, b. Florence. His full name was Donato...earliest freestanding nude figures of the Renaissance. In demand throughout Italy, Donatello was invited to Padua in 1443, where he stayed...