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| Donatello: Madonna of the Clouds, ca.1425-35 Photograph by Sharon Mollerus, Creative Commons licensed
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Donatello Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)
Donatello at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Crucifixion, ca.1440
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History Saint George, ca.1417
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 117 works by or related to the artist
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French) (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia The Virgin Mary with the Child, marble bas-relief
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French) Le Festin d'Hérode
State Museums of Berlin Putto with Tambourine, 1429
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Information about The Chellini Madonna, ca.1450
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 3 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Donatello at The Art Renewal Center
Donatello at The Artchive
Donatello in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Donatello at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project St. George
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project David
PBase Photo Sharing (Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace Equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni, called Gattamelata
Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace
ArtWatch International (Free registration required) Donatello's Habakkuk (Zuccone), before and after restoration St. George and the Dragon, before and after restoration
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Donatello Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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