Michaelangelo David Find The Statue In The Marble
146 cm 57 1 2 in.
Michaelangelo david find the statue in the marble. It is a 14 0 ft marble statue depicting the biblical hero david represented as a standing male nude. David is a 5 17 metre 17 0 ft a marble statue of the biblical figure david a favoured subject in the art of florence 1 david was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned. 121 among the many treasures that will be on view in michelangelo. Agostino did not make much progress only managing to mark out the shape of the legs feet and drapery his work on the project ceased for reasons that remain unclear.
Extraordinarily the marble statue remained packed in a wooden box for 25 years until it was installed in the new purpose built semi circular gallery at the accademia in 1873. Museo nazionale del bargello florence sculture 1879 no. 10 facts that you don t know about michelangelo s david 1. Click here to buy the book that tells you the story of michelangelo s david.
Enormous marble reproduction of michelangelo s renaissance masterpiece david is destroyed after toppling over in glendale cemetery the 17 foot tall statue had been on display at the privately. Divine draftsman and designer. Italian il david forse la scultura più famosa al mondo sicuramente una delle più grandi attrazioni di firenze si trova con i suoi imponenti 5 16 metri di altezza nella galleria dell accademia. The original cast still survives and is today displayed at the gipsoteca art school at the istituto statale d arte in florence.
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block before i start my work. Michelangelo s david is massive at 17 feet tall and more than 12 000 pounds yet it is sculpted from a single block of white marble. David is a masterpiece of renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the italian artist michelangelo. Originally commissioned by the opera del duomo for the cathedral of florence it was meant to be one of a series of large statues to be positioned in the niches of the cathedral s tribunes way up at about 80mt from the ground.
It is already there i just have to chisel away the superfluous material. The story begins with a commission for a statue of david dating as far back as 1466 when the artist agostino di duccio began work on the marble block.