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Italian Renaissance
Donato de'Bardi detto Donatello
The Bronze David by Donatello

Kat
Art History
Mid Term Paper

David
David, who was presumed by many of the fifteenth century to be the future king of Israel, was portrayed any many different and exciting styles. I will explain how the works of Donatello, Michelangelo and Bernini are similar and how they are very different, how the renaissance and culture influenced their works and how there works influenced society and the renaissance.
In a four hundred-year span, these three great artists created their own masterpieces. Donatello's came first, then Michelangelo's, and finally that of Bernini. All three sculptors had different objectives and it shows in their work. Bernini's is the most dramatic and sculptured to look more realistic. That seems to be the objective, which Bernini wished to achieve, but it was not the objective of the other two sculptors. Bernini was reported to have carved......

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