Donatello: The Master Michelangelo Never Met

Everyone has heard the name. Almost no one stops long enough to actually learn the story behind it.

Donatello never had the fame Michelangelo, Leonardo and the generation that came after him would go on to enjoy, and it never seems to have bothered him. What he had was something rarer: the recognition of Cosimo de' Medici, the most powerful man in Florence, who understood exactly what he was looking at, the foundation on which everything else in Florentine art would be built.

This is the story of the man who came first, who never needed to be the most celebrated name in the room to be the most essential one in it.

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