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Related Timeline(s)

• • Venice and Northern Italy, 1400–1600 A.D.

Related Thematic Essay(s)

• • Direct versus Indirect Casting of Small Bronzes in the Italian Renaissance
• • Bronze Sculpture in the Renaissance
• • Donatello (ca. 1386–1466)

Related Index Terms

Artist

• • Bellano, Bartolomeo (Italian, Paduan, 1437/38–1496/97)

Material and Technique

• • Metalwork, Bronze
• • Metalwork, Bronze, Europe
• • Sculpture, In the Round, Europe
• • Sculpture, in the Round, Europe, Italian Peninsula

Object

• • Religious Art, Christianity, Sculpture in the Round

Subject Matter/Theme

• • Figure, Biblical
• • Figure, Biblical, Hebrew Scriptures
• • Figure, Biblical, Hebrew Scriptures, King David

Technical Glossary

• • Bronze
• • gilding

"Bartolomeo Bellano: David with the Head of Goliath (64.304.1)". In Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bron/ho_64.304.1.htm (August 2007)

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David with the Head of Goliath, 15th century (1470–80)
Bartolomeo Bellano (Italian, Paduan, 1437/38–1496/97)
Gilt bronze, oil gilding of later date; H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)
Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1964 (64.304.1)