Donatello

Donatello trained in Florence as a goldsmith and worked in Lorenzo Ghiberti's workshop before studying ancient ruins in Rome, reportedly alongside Brunelleschi. He moved Florentine sculpture from Gothic grace to classical weight and raw feeling, and developed rilievo schiacciato, a very shallow carved relief. His bronze David, made for the Medici, was the first freestanding male nude since antiquity. In Padua he cast the Gattamelata, the first large bronze equestrian statue since Roman times.