Biograpghy

 Donatello was born in 1386 in Florence Italy. He became the Italian sculptor in the 15th century.  He was brought up in the more working kind of tradition. Donatello was very good with understanding poetry and understanding people, and a quality of that brought him to the early years of the Renaissance. By  1407 he had left Ghiberti for the Cathedral.  A good deal is known about Donatello's life and career, but there was not much about his character and personality. There is not a lot of information about his childhood. He was never married and had no children. He started practicing sculpting when he was 20. By than he made a shop in Florence were he kept a lot of his work. Donatello didn't like to be told what to do when it came to art, he liked his artistic freedom, and he liked to create his own things and liked to do things on his own. Florence paid Donatello for his sculptures. The work of Donatello first appeared in two marble statues, St Mark and St George, and they were both completed in 1415. When Donatello went back to Florence Italy, he had realized that a bunch of artists had taken over and their work was very interesting.  His style of art was gone in his home city. Donatello still got commisions from outside Florence and he stayed productive till he had died at age eighty. St Mark statue and St George statue <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 144%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">