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DONATELLO: Chellini Madonna

DONATELLO
🖼 Chellini Madonna, before 1456
Bronze, diameter 28,5 cm
London, United Kingdom

Tender marble relief captures mother and child in intimate profile, their faces nearly touching in gentle communion. Donatello's revolutionary shallow carving technique—schiacciato—created unprecedented spatial depth, transforming Renaissance sculpture and establishing new emotional intimacy between figures.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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