1450s in Art - Sculpture

Sculpture

  • 1453: Donatello's Equestrian statue of Gattamelata, Piazza del Santo, Padua, erected.
  • c.1455: Donatello's Mary Magdalene, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Florence).

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