DONATELLO
(b. ca. 1386, Firenze, d. 1466, Firenze)

St John the Baptist (detail)

1438
Painted wood
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

This sculpture belongs to Donatello's most intensely expressive period: the deeply carved features are bleakly ascetic.




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