Marble Sculpture Of David

David marble sculpture executed from 1501 to 1504 by the italian renaissance artist michelangelo.

Marble sculpture of david. Nude sculpture within the renaissance was of course particularly common. The statue was commissioned for one of the buttresses of the cathedral of florence and was carved from a block of marble that had been partially blocked out by other sculptors and left outdoors. The masterpiece was completed in seven months from 1623 to 1624. At that time the marble was said to have had a flaw in it and the project was abandoned.

David is nude in this depiction other than his helmet and boots. The artist s second sculpture of david measures 158cm and is dated from the 1430s to 1440s. For unknown reasons agostino abandoned the project after doing only a little work mostly roughing out around the legs. The biblical character of david was a highly popular subject in renaissance art perhaps made most famous by michelangelo s marble interpretation.

A statue of david the biblical hero who slayed the giant goliath had been ordered in 1464. 2 the block of marble that michelangelo used to carve david had been worked on more than 50 years earlier by donatello. David is a masterpiece of renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the italian artist michelangelo. The marbled version features david fully clothed.

This commission went to agostino and a huge slab of marble was extracted from the carrara quarries in tuscany italy for the project. It was commissioned by cardinal scipione borghese to decorate the borghese gallery. 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. Famous marble david statue the masterpiece of the renaissance sculpture master michelangelo is regarded as one of the best male human statues in the history of western art.

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. Before him however the florentine sculptor donatello c. David is the title of two statues of the biblical hero david by the italian early renaissance sculptor donatello. David is a 5 17 metre 17 0 ft marble statue of the biblical figure david a favoured subject in the art of florence.

They consist of an early work in marble of a clothed figure 1408 09 and a far more famous bronze figure that is nude except for helmet and boots and dates to the 1440s or later. 1386 1466 created an evocative bronze cast representation of david that stands apart from its successors.