Donatello and Followers in the Bode Museum

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by Henk Bekker

Donatello and Followers in the Bode Museum

The Bode Museum has a rich collection of works by Donatello. Wilhelm von Bode was a Donatello expert, which made it possible to acquire many works not yet identified as by Donatello. (He did not always get it right.)

The two most important Donatello works in the museum are the Pazzi Madonna (center)(marble relief, c. 1420) and the Putto with a Tambourine (glass display case)(small bronze statuette, c. 1429). The museum has many further works attributed to Donatello or his workshop.

Many further portrayals of the Madonna and Child demonstrate how the Renaissance master influenced other artists. These include a Virgin and Child with Saint Dominic and Saint Peter Martyr, c. 1435, tempera on panel, by Fra Angelico. (Painting on the left)

In the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany.