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,, head from below right
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Creator:
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Donatello (Italian sculptor, ca. 1386-1466)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) Inv. 95 B
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Location Note:
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Via del Proconsolo, 4
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GPS:
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+43.770423+11.257947
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Date:
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ca. 1435-1440 (creation)
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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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bronze; traces of gold gilding
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Technique:
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casting (process); gilding (technique)
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Measurements:
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158 cm (height)
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Description:
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The most enigmatic of Donatello’s sculptures both in treatment and in dating (for it is absolutely undocumented) is the nearly nude bronze David (Florence, Bargello), which stood on an ornamental pedestal in the center of the newly built courtyard of the Medici palace. Recently, it has been proposed that, rather than dating after Padua (1443-1453), the David was commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici in ca. 1435-1440 for the old Medici Palace and moved to the courtyard of the new one built by Michelozzo. It has been suggested that the nudity and sensuousness of the boy David, as well as some surprising details of his costume, none of which is derived from the biblical story, may result from a Neo-Platonic philosophical interpretation of David as an allegory of heavenly love (Ames-Lewis). (Cosimo was the founder of the Neo-Platonic Academy in Florence.) (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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7A1-DB-MB-D-B01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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