Claim: Renaissance art involved an artist.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi -LRB- c. 1386 -- 13 December 1466 -RRB- , better known as Donatello -LRB- -LSB- donaˈtɛllo -RSB- -RRB- , was an early Renaissance sculptor from Florence . He studied classical sculpture and used this to develop a complete Renaissance style in sculpture , whose periods in Rome , Padua and Siena introduced to other parts of Italy a long and productive career . He worked with stone , bronze , wood , clay , stucco and wax , and had several assistants , with four perhaps being a typical number . Though his best-known works were mostly statues in the round , he developed a new , very shallow , type of bas-relief for small works , and a good deal of his output was larger architectural reliefs .