<P> Although both the Pisanos and Giotto had students and followers , the first truly Renaissance artists were not to emerge in Florence until 1401 with the competition to sculpt a set of bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral which drew entries from seven young sculptors including Brunelleschi , Donatello and the winner , Lorenzo Ghiberti . Brunelleschi , most famous as the architect of the dome of Florence Cathedral and the Church of San Lorenzo , created a number of sculptural works , including a lifesized Crucifix in Santa Maria Novella , renowned for its naturalism . His studies of perspective are thought to have influenced the painter Masaccio . Donatello became renowned as the greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance , his masterpieces being his Humanist and unusually erotic statue of David , one of the icons of the Florentine republic , and his great monument to Gattamelata , the first large equestrian bronze to be created since Roman times . </P>
<P> Although both the Pisanos and Giotto had students and followers , the first truly Renaissance artists were not to emerge in Florence until 1401 with the competition to sculpt a set of bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence Cathedral which drew entries from seven young sculptors including Brunelleschi , Donatello and the winner , Lorenzo Ghiberti . Brunelleschi , most famous as the architect of the dome of Florence Cathedral and the Church of San Lorenzo , created a number of sculptural works , including a lifesized Crucifix in Santa Maria Novella , renowned for its naturalism . His studies of perspective are thought to have influenced the painter Masaccio . Donatello became renowned as the greatest sculptor of the Early Renaissance , his masterpieces being his Humanist and unusually erotic statue of David , one of the icons of the Florentine republic , and his great monument to Gattamelata , the first large equestrian bronze to be created since Roman times . </P>
who was the first major figure of the renaissance art movement
who was the first major figure of the renaissance art movement
Donatello
Donatello