The David is the theme that I chose for this chapter of my blog because he was an important figure in the history of the Judaism and especially for its importance in the history of art in Florence. I chose the four greatest works of art made in different times with different master artists. The oldest David is the one in bronze made by Donatello in Florence about 1440.
It's Measuring 158 cm in maximum diameter of 51 cm and is preserved in the National Museum of the Bargello in Florence. The image of David's victory over Goliath is a symbol of the entire city of Florence by Medici family.
David was made for the courtyard of Palazzo Medici. The most common date is the one that places it among the works of the forties of the fifteenth century when the great sculptor worked for Cosimo de Medici. The hero is depicted standing, in unusually pointed, with a decorated hat by a wreath of laurel. His hairs are long . The body is naked so it shows the beauty of classical and pagan nakedness mixed in this biblical heroic aspect. It shows the liberty of Neo-platonical philosophy in human corporal beauty from all sides. In the second art work we see the Verrocchio's David. He looks like a beardless youth, with hair curled around her face with a slightly smiling. He is wearing a short dress with and old shoes. He holds a hand on her hip and holds a sword. This sculpture also was commissioned by the Medici family.
In Verrocchio's the figure of this biblical hero is no longer naked, but dressed like an adolescent. With the head of Goliath at the feet, David stands victorious. This statue has multiple viewpoints for the audience.The expression is elusive, vaguely pointing to the side, and the toothy grin generates a gradient of expression of adolescent bravado.
The third David is Michelangelo's David, sculpted between 1501 and early 1504. This is widely considered a masterpiece of world sculpture, especially the Renaissance. It is the most famous sculpture by Michelangelo in the world. Some artists and art historians go further to say that it is the most beautiful objects created by humanity. Michelangelo breaks away from the traditional way of representing David. He does not present us with the winner, the giant's head at his feet and the powerful sword in his hand. Rather, he portrays the youth as tense with a sense of gathering power immediately preceding the battle. Perhaps he has caught him just in the moment when he has heard that his people are hesitating, and he sees Goliath jeering and mocking them. In his right hand holds the stone with which will defeat the enemy soon.
The statue is white marble is 17 feet and was commissioned as a symbol of the Florentine republic. Is exposed to the Galleria of academy in Florence.By David has been renewed the canon of Renaissance male beauty. It's interesting to see that the head and hands of Michelangelo's David has a greater proportion than the rest of the . Maybe for a philosophical reason considering head as the reason by which humans think hands as instruments for which reason it uses to operate. The David of the Academy is very different from other interpretations that had preceded him as to the feminine forms, taken from Hellenistic statuary, interpreted as a religious hero whose strength comes from God, but here it conveys an idea of totally self-sufficient force.
It's Measuring 158 cm in maximum diameter of 51 cm and is preserved in the National Museum of the Bargello in Florence. The image of David's victory over Goliath is a symbol of the entire city of Florence by Medici family.
David was made for the courtyard of Palazzo Medici. The most common date is the one that places it among the works of the forties of the fifteenth century when the great sculptor worked for Cosimo de Medici. The hero is depicted standing, in unusually pointed, with a decorated hat by a wreath of laurel. His hairs are long . The body is naked so it shows the beauty of classical and pagan nakedness mixed in this biblical heroic aspect. It shows the liberty of Neo-platonical philosophy in human corporal beauty from all sides. In the second art work we see the Verrocchio's David. He looks like a beardless youth, with hair curled around her face with a slightly smiling. He is wearing a short dress with and old shoes. He holds a hand on her hip and holds a sword. This sculpture also was commissioned by the Medici family.
In Verrocchio's the figure of this biblical hero is no longer naked, but dressed like an adolescent. With the head of Goliath at the feet, David stands victorious. This statue has multiple viewpoints for the audience.The expression is elusive, vaguely pointing to the side, and the toothy grin generates a gradient of expression of adolescent bravado.
The third David is Michelangelo's David, sculpted between 1501 and early 1504. This is widely considered a masterpiece of world sculpture, especially the Renaissance. It is the most famous sculpture by Michelangelo in the world. Some artists and art historians go further to say that it is the most beautiful objects created by humanity. Michelangelo breaks away from the traditional way of representing David. He does not present us with the winner, the giant's head at his feet and the powerful sword in his hand. Rather, he portrays the youth as tense with a sense of gathering power immediately preceding the battle. Perhaps he has caught him just in the moment when he has heard that his people are hesitating, and he sees Goliath jeering and mocking them. In his right hand holds the stone with which will defeat the enemy soon.
The statue is white marble is 17 feet and was commissioned as a symbol of the Florentine republic. Is exposed to the Galleria of academy in Florence.By David has been renewed the canon of Renaissance male beauty. It's interesting to see that the head and hands of Michelangelo's David has a greater proportion than the rest of the . Maybe for a philosophical reason considering head as the reason by which humans think hands as instruments for which reason it uses to operate. The David of the Academy is very different from other interpretations that had preceded him as to the feminine forms, taken from Hellenistic statuary, interpreted as a religious hero whose strength comes from God, but here it conveys an idea of totally self-sufficient force.
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