Donatello (1383-1466) : Early Italian Renaissance

Donatello, like Dante, worked in Florence, roughly 80 years after Dante.  Comparing his Early Italian Renaissance work to the Middle and Late Italian Renaissance works of Michelangelo and Bernini can give us a visual means of situating Dante in the larger Renaissance Movement.  Consider then that Donatello's work represents cutting edge Renaissance vision, and Dante predates Donatello.

John The Baptist (c. 1438) Painted wood

The Penitent Magdalene  (c.1453-55) Wood with polychromy and gold

David (1444-46):  The first free standing bronze cast during the Renaissance and an obvious influence on Michelangelo's David