# Tomb slab of Leonardo Dati

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GHIBERTI, Lorenzo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ghiberti-lorenzo-raaf1e6e5ade357>)
- Date: 1401-1450
- Technique: Bronze

## Commentary

Between 1425 and 1427 Ghiberti executed the bronze tomb slab of Leonardo Dati \(d. 1425\), general of the Dominican Order, the head of which may have been worked from a death-mask. Throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries one of the commonest types of commemorative monument was a tomb slab set in the church floor. Occacionally, in the hands of a great sculptor, this was elevated into a work of art. In San Frediano at Lucca it was stamped with the personal rhythms and rolling drapery of &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/q/quercia/jacopo/bologna/trenta3.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/q/quercia/jacopo/bologna/trenta3.html&#34;&gt;Jacopo della Quercia&#39;s mature style;&lt;/a&gt; in Santa Maria Novella in Florence it took on the flowing silhouette of Ghiberti&#39;s tomb slab of Leonardo Dati; and in Siena Cathedral it embraced the complex space structure of the &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/d/donatell/1\_early/siena/tomb\_pec.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/d/donatell/1\_early/siena/tomb\_pec.html&#34;&gt;Pecci tomb slab of Donatello.&lt;/a&gt; On one occasion, and one only, the tomb slab was developed further still, and was raised on a carved marble surround which lent it the status of a free-standing monument. The work in question is &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/m/micheloz/2/martin5.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/m/micheloz/2/martin5.html&#34;&gt;Michelozzo&#39;s tomb slab&lt;/a&gt; of Pope Martin V in San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome.

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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)