Florentine sculptor, 1386 - 1466

	"In the Medici Palace there are also various Madonnas in marble and bronze, in low relief, and other scenes wonderfully carved in flat relief in marble, containing some exquisite figures." I-180 Pazzi Madonna
	The Ascension and the Giving of the Keys to Peter
	"In the houses belonging to the Martelli family there are a number of works including a David standing six feet high, which Donatello presented to them as tokens of his love and devotion." I-181 The Martelli David (there are doubts about its authenticity)
	"Donatello also made, for one archbishop, a marble tomb which was sent to Naples and is now in Sant'Angelo di Seggio di Nido. On the sarcophagus is a scene in low relief so beautiful that no praise is too extravagant for it." I-181 Assumption of the Virgin (detail of the Brancacci tomb), Naples
	"In the township of Prato he did the marble pulpit where the Girdle is shown, carving in its compartments the figures of dancing children with such beautiful and expressive skill that here, no less than in his other work, he can be said to have executed sculpture that is absolutely perfect." I-181 Pulpit, Prato
	Pulpit, Prato (detail)