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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)

    Bellano was a disciple of Donatello, whose famous bronze nude David (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) is strongly recalled here. The oil gilding is of a later date.

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  • "Ninety-Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees, for the Fiscal Year 1964–1965." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 24, no. 2 (October, 1965).
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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)