Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral opens 20 February 2015 at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York. Twenty-three early Florentine Renaissance sculptures—most never seen outside Italy—will be exhibited as the centerpiece of the Museum’s tenth anniversary season. MOBIA will be the sole venue for this exhibition of works created as components of larger programs for the exterior and interior of Florence Cathedral (the Duomo) from around 1400 until 1450. Sculpture in the Age of Donatello brings together objects made for the same location by artists who knew and competed with each other. On view through 14 June 2015.
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Donatello, Saint John the Evangelist, c. 1409-1411. Full view and detail. Photo credit: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore / Antonio Quattrone
Donatello, The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail), c. 1421. Photo credit: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore / Antonio Quattrone
Donatello, Prophet Habbakuk (or “Lo Zuccone”), c. 1423-35. Photo credit: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore / Antonio Quattrone
Giovanni d’Ambrogio, The Annunciation, late fourteenth-century. Photo credit: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore / Antonio Quattrone
Nanni di Banco, Saint Luke, c. 1408. Photo credit: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore / Antonio Quattrone
Donatello, Bronze Head for his Cantoria, c. 1433. Photo credit: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore / Antonio Quattrone