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...pairs of bronze doors for the sacristies of the cathedral, he was lured to Padua by a commission for a bronze equestrian statue of a famous Venetian condottiere, Erasmo da Narmi, popularly called Gattamelata (“The Honeyed Cat”), who had died shortly before. Such a project was unprecedented—indeed, scandalous—for since the days of the Roman Empire bronze equestrian...
...the very idea of a freestanding sculpture of a nude hero was without precedent since antiquity. During the decade 1443–53 Donatello was in Padua executing the equestrian statue of Gattamelata to stand in front of the church (see photograph). Erasmo da Narni, called Gattamelata, was a condottiere, or leader of mercenary troops, who rose to a position of importance. The statue...
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