Jacopo della Quercia, also known as Jacopo di Pietro d'Agnolo di Guarnieri, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, a contemporary of Brunelleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello. He is considered a precursor of Michelangelo.
Jacopo della Quercia
Madonna of humility, marble, c. 1400
Tomb effigy of Lorenzo Trenta
Porta Magna, S. Petronio, Bologna
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture. He spent time in other cities, where he worked on commissions and taught others; his periods in Rome, Padua, and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy the techniques he had developed in the course of a long and productive career. His David was the first freestanding nude male sculpture since antiquity; like much of his work it was commissioned by the Medici family.
Donatello, an imagined 16th-century portrait by an unknown artist (The former attribution to Paolo Uccello is no longer accepted.)
David at the Bargello in Florence
16th-century portraits of Florentine culture heroes: Giotto, Paolo Uccello, Donatello, Antonio Manetti, Brunelleschi.
Ghiberti and workshop, the Nativity relief of the north doors for the Florence Baptistery from probably before 1407
