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Italy Has Snapped Up a Terracotta Madonna by Donatello for $1.3 Million

Deemed a cultural gem, the work will go to the Bargello Museum in Florence. The "Madonna with Child" terracotta masterpiece by Italian Renaissance artist sculptor Donatello unveiled at the Bargello ...
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A Once-in-a-Lifetime Donatello Show Argues That Sculpture, Not Painting, Was the Ultimate Renaissance Art Form

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...
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Born of hate and contempt, how the Bargello's extraordinary collection of medieval ivories came to be

When the Frenchman Louis-Claude Carrand (1827-88) bequeathed his art collection to the Bargello, he stated that he wished it to go to Italy because of his fears for the stability of his own country, ...