Donatello's David Statue vs Michelangelo
Donatello's marble David had been on display in front of the Palazzo dei Priori since 1416
against a backdrop of lilies, an insignia of Florence.
Other Statuaries : .[Spoiler (click to open)].David
Italian artist Verrocchio sculpted a version of David in 1475 while Michelangelo created the most famous depiction of the youth around 1501. Lesser-known David statues include a bronze by Bellano in the late 15th century and Bernini's marble David in the 17th century. The Renaissance David statues by Donatello, Verrocchio and Michelangelo remain in Florence, where they were created, to the present day. However, the Bellano is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City while the Bernini version is located at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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1) Bartolomeo Bellano | David with the head of Goliath | Italian, Padua David 1470-80 | 2) DAVID, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1623
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Andrea del Verrocchio's bronze statue of David 1473 to 1475. via
Donatello's bronze David first went on display in the courtyard of the Medici family in Florence, who many believe originally commissioned it. After the family lost favor in 1496, officials relocated the statue to the Palazza Vecchio's courtyard, and afterwards the David found a permanent home in Florence's Bargello Museum.
Although the original bronze David by Donatello remains in Florence, several copies are on display in locations around the world, including a rendition in plaster in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, a marble replica in the Royal Botanic Gardens, and a plaster version in Connecticut's Slater Museum.
While Donatello's first David and his bronze David are around six and five feet tall respectively, Michelangelo's version is more than twice their size at a towering 13 feet, five inches, designed to stand atop the cathedral in Florence.
David, Michelangelo masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture, marble statue created from 1501 to 1504, 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in) H
Michelangelo's David was the first colossal marble statue made in the early modern period following classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of twelve prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral (Duomo di Firenze), but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and in 1910 replaced at the original location by a replica. via
A twist to Michelangelo's David is the use of a natural stance, title "contraposto", ie asymmetry suggestive of motion. The twist of his body in contrapposto, standing with most of its weight on his right foot and the other leg forward, effectively conveys to the viewer a sense of potential energy, the feeling that he is about to move.[74] The statue is a Renaissance interpretation of a common ancient Greek theme of the standing heroic male nude. In the Renaissance, contrapposto poses were thought of as a distinctive feature of antique sculpture, initially manifested in the Doryphoros of Polykleitos (c. 440 BC).
Donatello's two statues of David illustrate the development of his style and vision from the heavy Gothic influence of his youth, characterized by ornament and grace, to a more naturalistic style of his later years that was less idealized and more realistic humanist perspective, which is emblematic of Renaissance enlightenment.
.All the Young Davids
Donatello's later David was the first freestanding bronze cast statue of the Renaissance era as well as the first nude sculpture of a male since the classical sculptures of ancient Greece.
Donatello David Bronze Statue (1440)
Prior to the renewed interest in David as an artistic subject during the Renaissance, artists typically presented the biblical figure as the king he would later become rather than the boy who triumphed over Goliath, which is the version Donatello came to embrace.
To top it off, the statue has an element of playfulness with the feather from the helmet
of the head of Goliath tickles its way up the leg of young David.
dr. π (pi)
.
against a backdrop of lilies, an insignia of Florence.
Other Statuaries : .[Spoiler (click to open)].David
Italian artist Verrocchio sculpted a version of David in 1475 while Michelangelo created the most famous depiction of the youth around 1501. Lesser-known David statues include a bronze by Bellano in the late 15th century and Bernini's marble David in the 17th century. The Renaissance David statues by Donatello, Verrocchio and Michelangelo remain in Florence, where they were created, to the present day. However, the Bellano is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City while the Bernini version is located at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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1) Bartolomeo Bellano | David with the head of Goliath | Italian, Padua David 1470-80 | 2) DAVID, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1623
via and via
Andrea del Verrocchio's bronze statue of David 1473 to 1475. via
Donatello's bronze David first went on display in the courtyard of the Medici family in Florence, who many believe originally commissioned it. After the family lost favor in 1496, officials relocated the statue to the Palazza Vecchio's courtyard, and afterwards the David found a permanent home in Florence's Bargello Museum.
Although the original bronze David by Donatello remains in Florence, several copies are on display in locations around the world, including a rendition in plaster in London's Victoria and Albert Museum, a marble replica in the Royal Botanic Gardens, and a plaster version in Connecticut's Slater Museum.
While Donatello's first David and his bronze David are around six and five feet tall respectively, Michelangelo's version is more than twice their size at a towering 13 feet, five inches, designed to stand atop the cathedral in Florence.
David, Michelangelo masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture, marble statue created from 1501 to 1504, 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in) H
Michelangelo's David was the first colossal marble statue made in the early modern period following classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of twelve prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral (Duomo di Firenze), but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and in 1910 replaced at the original location by a replica. via
A twist to Michelangelo's David is the use of a natural stance, title "contraposto", ie asymmetry suggestive of motion. The twist of his body in contrapposto, standing with most of its weight on his right foot and the other leg forward, effectively conveys to the viewer a sense of potential energy, the feeling that he is about to move.[74] The statue is a Renaissance interpretation of a common ancient Greek theme of the standing heroic male nude. In the Renaissance, contrapposto poses were thought of as a distinctive feature of antique sculpture, initially manifested in the Doryphoros of Polykleitos (c. 440 BC).
Donatello's two statues of David illustrate the development of his style and vision from the heavy Gothic influence of his youth, characterized by ornament and grace, to a more naturalistic style of his later years that was less idealized and more realistic humanist perspective, which is emblematic of Renaissance enlightenment.
.All the Young Davids
Donatello's later David was the first freestanding bronze cast statue of the Renaissance era as well as the first nude sculpture of a male since the classical sculptures of ancient Greece.
Donatello David Bronze Statue (1440)
Prior to the renewed interest in David as an artistic subject during the Renaissance, artists typically presented the biblical figure as the king he would later become rather than the boy who triumphed over Goliath, which is the version Donatello came to embrace.
To top it off, the statue has an element of playfulness with the feather from the helmet
of the head of Goliath tickles its way up the leg of young David.
dr. π (pi)
.