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Josua, later transformed into Saint John the Baptist  wikidata:Q120531314 reasonator:Q120531314
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Nanni di Bartolo  (fl. 1419–1451)  wikidata:Q3335680
 
Nanni di Bartolo
Alternative names
il Rosso
Description sculptor
Date of birth/death 15th century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
 Edit this at Wikidata		 15th century
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Location of birth Florence
Work period from 1419 until 1451
date QS:P,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1419-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1451-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Florence Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q3335680
Donatello  (1386–1466)  wikidata:Q37562 q:it:Donatello
 
Donatello
Alternative names
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
Description Italian artist and sculptor
Date of birth/death circa 1386
date QS:P,+1386-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 13 December 1466 (?)
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
Work period 1404 Edit this at Wikidata–1466 Edit this at Wikidata
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Florence; Padua; Rome; Ferrara; Lucca; Mantua; Modena; Naples; Pisa; Prato; Siena Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q37562
Bernardo Ciuffagni  (1381–1458) wikidata:Q428168
 
Bernardo Ciuffagni
Alternative names
Bernardo di Piero di Bartol Ciuffagni
Description sculptor
Date of birth/death 1381 Edit this at Wikidata 18 June 1458 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Florence Florence
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Josua, later transformed into Saint John the Baptist
label QS:Lde,"zunächst Joshua, später umgearbeitet als Johannes der Täufer"
label QS:Len,"Josua, later transformed into Saint John the Baptist"
Object type marble sculpture / statue Edit this at Wikidata
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Identifier: donatello00meye (find matches)
Title: Donatello
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Alfred Gotthold Konody, Paul G. (Paul George), 1872-1933
Subjects: Donatello, 1386?-1466
Publisher: Bielefeld and Leipzig : Velhagen & Klasing
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hereas Donatellos work is merely a study of the nude from a naked peasant. But in the competition for the door of the Baptistery, it was just his realism that made Brunelleschi dangerous to Ghiberti— and now he was to surpass Donatello by the idealism of his conception! Yet there is no doubt about the fact. The crucified Saviour in S. Maria Novella is a work of great beauty: the head with its noble features is delicately framed by the hanging locks; the delicately modelled body is conceived in an attitude which shows that the master was mainly concerned with aharmonious general effect, and not with unrestrained realism. Donatello,on the other hand, was not so fastidious in the choice of his model. It is really a crocijisso contadino, square-built, with a broad but flat chest,and coursely shaped limbs. A broad piece of cloth is placed around theloins, without the slightest regard for an effective contrast to the nude, or,even less, for beautiful folds. From the point of view of form, it is the
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Fig. 20. St. John the Baptist. Florence. Campanile. West- front. After a photograph from the original by Alinari Brothers, Florence. (To page 33.) n

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Date 1904
date QS:P571,+1904-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium marble Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 208 cm (81.8 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+208U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1200696
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