Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Donatello across 3 places, from 1404 to 1443.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi ( – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Donatello is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Donatello was documented, and when
1404 to 1430period
Republic of Florenceattested“A factor in the delay was probably Donatello's travelling, which increased from about 1430, after a long period of steady work and residence in Florence after his return from Rome in about 1404.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1404 to 1430period
Romeattested“A factor in the delay was probably Donatello's travelling, which increased from about 1430, after a long period of steady work and residence in Florence after his return from Rome in about 1404.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
July 1427month
Republic of Florenceattested“Donatello was born in Florence, probably in 1386, based on his own later statement in his catasto tax declaration; he claimed to be 41 years old in July 1427.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1443year
Paduaattested“In 1443, Donatello was called to Padua by the heirs of the famous condottiere Erasmo da Narni (better known as the , or 'Honey-Cat'), who had died that year.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
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January 1401month
Republic of Florencementioned“Donatello's first appearance in any documentary records is unpromising; in January 1401, at the age of about 15, he was accused in Pistoia, 25 miles from Florence and then controlled by it, of hitting a German with a stick, drawing blood.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
January 1401month
Pistoiamentioned“Donatello's first appearance in any documentary records is unpromising; in January 1401, at the age of about 15, he was accused in Pistoia, 25 miles from Florence and then controlled by it, of hitting a German with a stick, drawing blood.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1404 to 1407period
Prato cathedralmentioned“Donatello is recorded as working as an apprentice, and for the last few months on a salary, in the studio of Lorenzo Ghiberti in 1404–1407, apparently working on the workshop's main project, the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, a…”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
November 1406month
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence)mentioned“He was paid in November 1406 for a figure of a prophet on the door, most probably the one for the left pinnacle (now in the Museo dell' Opera del Duomo, the cathedral museum).”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1409year
Prato cathedralmentioned“In 1409–1411, he executed the colossal seated figure of Saint John the Evangelist, which occupied a niche of the old cathedral façade until 1588, and is now in the cathedral museum.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1410year
Santa Croce, Florencementioned“Before about 1410 he made the painted wooden crucifix now in Santa Croce, which features in a famous story in Vasari.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1416year
Republic of Florencementioned“He was commissioned to rework it in 1416, the cathedral surrendering it to the republic, who placed it in the seat of government, the Palazzo Vecchio.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1418year
Santa Maria Novellamentioned“In 1418, the Signoria commissioned a large and imposing figure of Florence's heraldic lion, the Marzocco for the entrance to a new apartment at Santa Maria Novella built for a rare visit by the pope; in the event, he did not finish it in…”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1425 to 1428period
Republic of Florencementioned“From 1425 to 1428, they collaborated on the Tomb of Antipope John XXIII in the Florence Baptistery; the executors were Giovanni de' Medici and Medici supporters.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1426year
Sant'Angelo a Nilomentioned“Other stiacciato reliefs include The Assumption of the Virgin in the wall-tomb in Sant'Angelo a Nilo, Naples, (1426-1428, see below), the Madonna of the Clouds and Pazzi Madonna, both c.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1426year
Pisamentioned“A donkey was purchased to help with transport, and in 1426, Donatello had bought a boat to ship marble from Carrara to Pisa.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1426year
Carraramentioned“A donkey was purchased to help with transport, and in 1426, Donatello had bought a boat to ship marble from Carrara to Pisa.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1427year
Naplesmentioned“After his death in 1427, the partnership took on the funerary monument of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci, a Medici ally, at the church of Sant'Angelo a Nilo in Naples.”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
1429year
Baptistery of San Giovanni, Sienamentioned“Finishing in 1429, for the font at the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Siena, apart from the relief of The Feast of Herod (discussed above), he made small bronze statues of Faith and Hope, and three small bronze spiritelli, naked winged putt…”source: Wikipedia: Donatello
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