Saint George (Donatello)

Saint George
ArtistDonatello
Year1415–1417
LocationBargello Museum, Florence

Saint George (Italian: San Giorgio) is a marble sculpture by Donatello. It is one of fourteen sculptures commissioned by the guilds of Florence[1] to decorate the external niches of the Orsanmichele church. St. George was commissioned by the guild of the armorers and sword makers, the Arte dei Corazzai e Spadai.

A stone thrown at the sculpture in 1858 broke its nose,[2] and in 1892 Donatello's St. George was moved to the Bargello Museum in Florence.[3] From 1892 to 2008 a bronze replica was placed in the original niche, to be replaced by a marble replica on 23 April 2008. The original sculpture was stolen from the Villa Medici in Poggio a Caiano, but in May 1945 it was recovered by Frederick Hartt in Neumelans in the South Tyrol and returned to Florence on 20 July 1945. The box base was added back onto the statue in 1976.[4]

  1. ^ Paola Grifoni, Francesca Nannelli, Le statue dei santi protettori delle arti fiorentine e il Museo di Orsanmichele, Quaderni del servizio educativo, Edizioni Polistampa, Florence, 2006.
  2. ^ Pope-Hennessy, Sir John Wyndham (1958). Italian Renaissance sculpture. Phaidon Press. p. 272.
  3. ^ Lazzaro, Claudia; Crum, Roger J. (2005). Donatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy. Cornell University Press. pp. 133. ISBN 9780801489211. donatello st george moved 1892.
  4. ^ "Torna una statua di San Giorgio in marmo, copia voluta da Donatello -…". Archived from the original on 2 December 2012.