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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Donatello: Founder of the Renaissance

Donatello, Putto with Tambourine, 1429.

Sept 2, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023
Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin, Germany

In the 15th century, the Florentine sculptor Donatello was called “the master of masters.” He sculpted a penitent Magdalene in wood, stoic saints in marble, and a lithe young David in bronze. In the first major Donatello exhibition in 40 years, the distinguished curator Francesco Caglioti displays pieces from the artist’s entire career, placing them alongside works by his Renaissance contemporaries—Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Raphael, Michelangelo. This exhibition is a joint collaboration between the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello in Florence (where the show opened). The bronze David is in attendance. —Jensen Davis

Photo: Antje Voigt/© Staatliche Museen Berlin, Skulpturensammlung, and Museum für Byzantinische Kunst