Sculpting- Renaissance and Now

By: Rocco Fischetti 5/8/17

Have you ever seen Mt. Modern technology has really

Rushmore? Or ever been to an art taken sculpting far. We now have
museum? A lot of that art was 3D printers that can make a
inspired by the sculptor from the sculpture in a couple days to
Renaissance, Donatello. As months, where it took Donatello
Giorgio Vasari said about him, almost ten years to sculpt the
The world remained so full of Gattamelata. There is more than
Donatellos work that it may be just sculptures we can make:
said with confidence that no artist decorations, furniture, tupperware,
has ever produced more than he and almost anything you can think
did. Donatellos most famous of. We are very lucky to have this
sculptures were The David, technology to show art. Donatello
Gattamelata, and Mary Magdalen. inspired many artists and without
One famous Renaissance his existence, we wouldnt have
sculptor that was inspired by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Donatello was Michelangelo, who
was the most famous renaissance
sculptor.
Donatello (1386-1466)

He also inspired many modern

sculptures such as Mt. Rushmore.
The faces on his sculptures and Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota

Mt. Rushmore are very similar. AD

There are also many modern See the new TMNT movie at:
sculptures that are bronze like
most of his sculptures, but they
are a lot smaller and detailed.

This is Donatellos Marble David, which was

remade by many artists such as
Michelangelo. www.TMNT.com/Donniesthebest
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