Facts about Italian Renaissance Sculpture

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   Luca della Robbia pioneered a distinctive technique in Italian Renaissance sculpture using glazed terracotta, producing colorful, durable reliefs that decorated many Florentine buildings.

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   Verrocchio's bronze equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, completed after the sculptor's death in 1488, stands in Venice and exemplifies Italian Renaissance sculpture's revival of ancient Roman monument traditions.

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   The sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti spent over two decades creating his gilded bronze doors for the Florence Baptistery, which Michelangelo reportedly called the Gates of Paradise.

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   Michelangelo carved his marble statue of David, a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture, from a single block of marble between 1501 and 1504.

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   Donatello's bronze David, created in the 15th century, is considered the first freestanding nude statue produced since antiquity in Italian Renaissance sculpture.

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