... -1466) spent time in Rome studying and copying the statues of antiquity. His statue of David, is the first known life-size freestanding bronze nude in European art since antiquity. Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was a friend of Donatello and accompanied him to Rome. He gained much inspiration from the architectural monuments of Roman antiquity that when he returned he was commissioned ... ...

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... influential powers during the Renaissance. The arts were extremely important to the Renaissance, and very influential. Architecture was modeled after classical Greek and Roman stylings. The greatest Italian architect was Filippo Brunelleschi, who was best known for his completion of a cathedral in 1436. Sculpture, as did architecture, reflected ancient Greek and Roman ideas. The best known sculptors were Donatello, Michelangelo and ... ...

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