Brunelleschi

The Vandals and Visigoths must have felt that way; Donatello and Brunelleschi no less.

The same room includes two crucifixes in painted wood, the first by Donatello, the second by Brunelleschi.

Donatello was born in 1386, the son of a craftsman, and was apprenticed to the goldsmith and sculptor Ghiberti, also becoming a close friend of the architect and sculptor Brunelleschi.

It was an Italian architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, who first demonstrated the power of an infinite zero: he created a realistic painting by using a vanishing point.

The pair’s combined patronage extended the length of the High Renaissance, from Donatello and Brunelleschi to Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.