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, lower body and head of Goliath
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Creator:
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Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian sculptor, 1435-1488)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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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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1473-1475 (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
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Measurements:
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126 cm (height)
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Description:
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A free-standing bronze commissioned by the Medici family. The David offered Verrocchio the chance to challenge Donatello’s celebrated bronze of the same subject (also in the Bargello). Verrocchio’s invocation both of the Classical models that influenced Donatello and of Donatello’s David itself is evident in the dignified countenance of his frontal figure, standing in a contrappostal pose, his left arm on his waist. However, more concrete and accurate, it represents a totally novel approach. Instead of showing, as had Donatello, a heroic nude embodying general ideals of beauty, grace and youth, he portrayed a given young hero whose tight leather tunic reveals a bony but taut torso. Depicting a dramatic moment, he thus replaced Donatello’s languorous and passive figure with an audacious conqueror, with a trace of a supercilious smile. (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-VERR-MB-D-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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