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Florentine sculptor, 1386 - 1466

"He left Padua and returned to Florence through Venice, where as a mark of his benevolence he left as a gift for the Florentine colony a St John the Baptist in wood. This was executed by him for the Florentine Chapel in the Church of the Friars Minor.." I-183

St John the Baptist, Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
"Donatello then left Florence for Rome in order to imitate as many as possible of the works of the ancient world. While he was studying there he made a stone tabernacle for the Blessed Sacrament, which is now in St Peter's." I-183

Tabernacle of the Holy Sacrament
"On his way back to Florence [from Rome] he passed through Siena, where he promised to make a bronze door for the Baptistery..[he was persuaded to return to Florence], so the door was hardly started, let alone finished. All that Donatello left behind was a bronze figure of St John the Baptist, with its right arm missing below the elbow; and this, it is said, was because he had not been fully paid for it." I-183
St John the Baptist, Duomo, Siena
"On his return to Florence, Donatello did some work in stucco for Cosimo de'Medici in the sacristy of San Lorenzo, namely four medallions on the pendentives of the vault, with their grounds in perspective, partly painted and partly in low relief and containing scenes from the lives of the evangelists." I-183

The Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence
Evangelist Matthew
Evangelist Mark
Evangelist Luke
Evangelist John
St John on Patmos
Martyrdom of St John
Ascension of St John
Resurrection of Drusiana

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