David de Donatello

- Title: David de Donatello.

- Author: Donatello.

- Year: 1440.

- Style: lineal perspective and the color contrast.
-Technique: bronze.

- General description: David is a bronze sculpture of 158 cm in height by the Italian sculptor Donatello. The work was done in lathe to 1440, comissioned by Cosme de Médici, who wanted to place in the gardens of her palace in Florence.

Introduction.

The sculture that we can see was created by Donatello, the work belongs to the Italian Resaissance (quattrocento), the sculture was finished in 1440.

Analysis.

 This sculture is in raised, is fastened on a small pillar. This work that recreates the time after the biblical battle between David and Goliath was the return to the nude as a subject after nearly a thousand years of absence in the history of Western art. The biblical theme of the David and Goliath confrontation becomes a simple excuse to represent nudity as the classical sculptors. Thus David appears as if it were Apollo and the influence of Praxiteles is clear both in the pose of the sculpture and the modeling of the body, of ambiguous sexuality. The work can be put into context in the fullness if the Quattrocento. It was comissioned by Médicis Cosme, Florentine nobleman that returning power to the Repunlicof the Florence is identified with the Biblical character. It is a symbol of victory over his enemies, so David is associated with the figure of Cosme returning from exile as a winner. The texture of its surface is smooth and polished, because the artist seems to mimic the appearance of human skin, trying to make more credible such sculpture, which also provides a certain feeling of softness and smoothness.

Conclusión.

I liked this sculpture because it gives feeling of freedom and victory, when you see something and you don't know its meaning as that you matter less, but if you know it is as if you had more curious about that.