Statua di gattamelata biography

Italian condottiero

This initially is fail to differentiate the condottiero. For Donatello's equestrian casting, see Gattamelata (Donatello).

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Biography

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Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata

• Date of Creation:
• 1453
• Medium:
• Other
• Subject:
• Figure
• Created By:

• Donatello

• Current Location:

• Padua, Italy

• Erasmo da Narni

• Piazza del Santo

  Padua

• Gattamelata

Erasmo da Narni, the subject of Donatello's Gattamelata, was a powerful and illustrious Venetian nobleman and condottiere (mercenary). His military victories were well-known throughout the Italian city-states of the Pre-Renaissance period and his family was well respected.

Da Narni died in 1443 and soon afterwards, his family commissioned the Gattamelata to commemorate da Narni's military prowess and fame.

Donatello began work immediately on the statue and finished it ten years later in 1453. It remains today where it was placed upon its completion, in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy.

The Gattamelata was famous at the time for its departure from traditional equestrian statue subjects. Previous equestrian statues had been reserved exclusively for kings and other rulers.

Donatello's work is also a remarkable example of the fusion of Renaissance humanism and individualism with classicism. The statue sits on a pedestal and is itself nearly four meters high, life-size and majestic.

Da Narni died in his seventies but Donatello sculpted him as