Art Lecture- 'Donatello and the Dawn of the Renaissance'

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The Arts Society Lecture: In the early decades of the 15th century, the small city state of Florence was the birthplace of an astonishing, bloodless, revolution, now known as the renaissance. Many of its painters, composers, musicians, architects, thinkers, philosophers and patrons knew and influenced each other. None more so than the sculptor, Donatello, (above) who created new worlds out of stone, suffusing it with drama, humanity and tenderness. In the wake of a major exhibition at the V and A, the lecture looks at how he, in harness with many other renaissance figures who are part of his journey, changed the face of European culture for ever.