![]() ![]() But what begins as sexual fascination quickly becomes love and in time a consuming passion. He is young and palely beautiful and Donatello is at once taken with him. And it is a time, finally, when art and politics and religion collide in a single, unique historical moment.Īgnolo Mattei, a street boy and sometime prostitute, enters Donatello’s bottega and offers to pose in exchange for money. It is a time when, for a few years, three popes reign simultaneously. It is also a time of wealthy and powerful families: the Medici, the Albizzi, the Pazzi, the Strozzi, the Sforza, and the Visconti. ![]() ![]() It is a time of great, ground- breaking artists: della Quercia, Brunelleesci, Ghiberti, Fra Anngelico, Uccello della Robbia, Masaccio, and Donatello. The Medici Boy begins in the early 1400s. ![]() The prize-winning author of A Woman Run Mad, The Shrine at Altamira and The Miracle returns with his long awaited The Medici Boy, a stunning recreation of early Renaissance Florence and a masterful portrait of the complex, contradictory, and captivating sculptor Donatello. ![]()
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