Who commissioned Donatello to create the bronze statue David for the court of the Palazzo Medici ?
In 1435 , he executed the " Annunciation " for the Cavalcanti altar in Santa Croce , inspired by 14th - century iconography , and in 1437–1443 , he worked in the Old Sacristy of the San Lorenzo in Florence , on two doors and lunettes portraying saints , as well as eight stucco tondoes .