![]() ![]() L’Heureux describes the scene as follows:ĭonatello had stopped sketching. In the novel, this is portrayed as a spontaneous decision inspired by Agnolo’s beauty. One of the pivotal moments in the novel is when Donatello decides to sculpt David nude (it would be the first nude statue in a thousand years). L’Heureux gives a marvelous sense of art being created. His illegal activities also threaten to bring down Donatello and through him his patron and friend, Cosimo de’ Medici. Donatello’s relationship with Agnolo serves as the major plot complication since Agnolo is repeatedly denounced as a sodomite. Luca becomes jealous of his foster brother, Agnolo, who serves as Donatello’s inspiration for David and later becomes his lover. The story is narrated by Luca Mattei, a former monk who works as Donatello’s apprentice. John L’Heureux’s novel The Medici Boy focuses on the creation of Donatello’s David (the titular “Medici boy”). Among the best known of these works are the sculptures of David produced by Donatello (c. Under the patronage of the Medici family, artists such as Donatello, Michelangelo and Leonardo produced great works of painting and sculpture. ![]() Renaissance Florence was a period of great artistic ferment. ![]()
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