The famous Michelangelo David
Statue is available in over eight different art-sculptural
forms. The full body statue,
the upper torso, the bust
with wide neck, the bust with short neck, the right
hand and the left foot. In the Valley of Elah, where
the young David who was a shepherd boy that became
king of Israel and slew the giant Goliath with his
sling-shot three millennia ago in a battle between
the Israelites and Philistines.
The slingshot is held over his shoulder while the
other over-sized hand holds the rock. Destined originally
for one of the buttresses of the Duomo, it was placed
instead in the plaza outside the Palazzo Vecchio,
the seat of Florence's government. Unlike Donatello,
who depicted his heroic David art with Goliath's head
at his feet, Michelangelo's statue selected the tense
moment before the battle. The art subject of the statue
has to do with David and Goliath and later david was
king of israel for many years. Nowadays, you can find
David in the Galeria dell'Academia in Firenze. The
actual statue of David was started by a different
artist, Agostino di Duccio, in 1463. This monumentally
scaled statue of the Biblical David was commissioned
as a symbol of the Florence republic. Michelangelo's
David statues stand as a legacy to art that valued
for centuries by society. |