fatima---Donatello

Fatima Zahra Mrs.Berry P.2
 * Donatello media type="youtube" key="A8GQfq3U96M" width="382" height="315" align="right"**



**Background** Donatello was born in Florence, Italy. HIs life span was 1386-1466 (the exact date was unknown.)

= **Childhood**  = Donatello lived his childhood in Florence. He learned stone carving from one of the sculptors working for the Cathedral of Florence in about 1400. He liked making life like statues.

= **Education**  = Donatello had received his early artistic training in a Goldsmith's workshop.

= **Career****/Jobs**  = Donatello worked on a statue of St. Mark for the church of Orsanmichele. He worked in the studio of Lorenzo Ghiberti.

= **Achievements**  = Donatello was known for many of his masterpieces. One of his famous statue was his David which was the first nude statue of Renaissance, and the equestrian statue. Some of the other famous statue's created by Donatello were St. Peter, St. Mark, St. George, and the Dragon.

= **Influence on the World**  = Donatello invented a technique known as shiaciato (shallow relief) in which he generously achieved effects of spatial depth. This is an example of one of Donatello's spatial depths painting.