Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: David
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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David
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Image View:
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Detail of foot (toes damaged in attack in 1991)
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Creator:
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian sculptor, 1475-1564)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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58-60 via Ricasoli
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GPS:
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+43.77694+11.25873
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Date:
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1501-1504 (creation); restored 2003-2004 (restoration)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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sculpture
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Material:
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Carrara marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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17 ft (height, without base)
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Description:
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The marble block used for the David had been roughed out and abandoned by Agostino del Duccio and Michelangelo was thus required to work within predetermined constraints. Some peculiarities of the work, such as the relative shallowness of the lateral views of the figure, may be due to the existing shape of the marble; Vasari claimed that the splayed legs were determined by earlier piercing of the block. The work's significance does not lie in its technical ingenuity, however. The David is the first of Michelangelo's surviving depictions of the heroic male nude in which the entire emotional charge is carried by the articulation and twist of the body and limbs against the head. Stripped of all attributes but the minimal sling, this David carries no sword, and not even the head of Goliath distracts from his stark nudity. [To protect it from damage, the sculpture was moved in 1873 to the Accademia in Florence. A replica was placed in the original location in the Piazza della Signoria in 1910.] (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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1A1-MB-D2-E06
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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