Michelangelo’s Forgotten Renaissance Masterpiece

Tired of the David? A trip across Florence to see the small Santo Spirito Crucifix, a tender vision in old wood, is one of ...
Artnet

A Once-in-a-Lifetime Donatello Show Argues That Sculpture, Not Painting, Was the Ultimate Renaissance Art Form

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Renaissance Sculptor Is Getting His First U.S. Show

"The Visitation" Luca della Robbia (Italian, Florence, 1399 or 1400–1482) Italian, Renaissance, about 1445 Glazed terracotta Church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia Scala/Art Resource, NY/Museum ...
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Exhibit of the week: An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture

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Lovers and Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical ...
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James Franco Takes On Renaissance Sculpture in Sotheby’s Video

Actor-cum-artist James Franco is at it again. In a new video commissioned by Sotheby’s for their Artist Response series—in which the auction powerhouse invites artists to create a work in response to ...
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The impossible silver David: How one artist turned a Renaissance dream into a billion-dollar reality

There are ambitious art projects, and then there are those that seem completely impossible. When Mark Russo, Founder and ...
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Florentine Renaissance sculpture

Renaissance and patronage at Florence -- Background to Renaissance sculpture -- From Gothic to Renaissance -- Donatello: maturity (c. 1420-1466) -- "Sweet style" at Florence: Luca della Robbia ; ...
Forbes

Michelangelo Imperfect At National Gallery Of Denmark: A Bold And Poetic Celebration Of A Renaissance Giant

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. My mission is to spotlight great art and culture globally. Michelangelo Imperfect–a breathtaking new Michelangelo Buonarroti ...