"David", marble statue, 2.5 meters high, 5.5 meters high with the base, Michelangelo created in 1501-1504 AD, now in the collection of Florence Academy of Fine Arts.
Michelangelo lived in the era of social unrest in Italy, and the displaced life made him doubt the era in which he lived. Suffering and disappointed, he poured his own thoughts into his artistic creation, but also looked for his own ideals, and created a series of heroic images as majestic as giants, strong and brave. David is the most outstanding representative of this kind of thinking.
David is a young hero in the Bible, who once killed Goliath, the Philistine giant who invaded the Jews, and defended the city and people of his country. Michelangelo did not follow the previous scene of David crushing the head of the enemy under his feet after defeating the enemy, but chose the state of David when he met the battle. In this piece, David is a muscular, well-proportioned young man. He stood confidently, with his right hand hanging down, his head turned to the left, his face handsome, his bright eyes staring into the distance, as if he were searching the horizon for enemies, ready to fight a new battle. David's physique is majestic, his expression is brave and strong, his body, face and muscles are tense and full, reflecting the external and internal idealized male beauty. The young hero stared straight ahead, his expression full of concentrated tension and strong will, and the great power stored in his body seemed ready to burst out at any moment. Unlike his predecessors' habit of showing the scene after the battle, Michelangelo here portrays the moment before the characters have passion, making the work more appealing in art. His posture seems to be somewhat like resting, but the body posture shows a certain nervous emotion, so that people have a strong feeling of "moving in silence". The statue is carved from a whole block of stone. In order to make the statue look more majestic on the base, the artist intentionally enlarged the head and two arms of the figure, making David appear more upright and powerful in the audience's perspective, full of a sense of giant.
This statue is considered to be one of the most vaunted male body statues in the history of Western art. Not only that, "David" is the concrete embodiment of the humanistic thought of the Renaissance, its praise of the human body, on the surface, is the "revival" of ancient Greek art, in essence, it indicates that people have been freed from the dark medieval shackles, and fully realize the huge power of man in transforming the world. Michelangelo injected great passion into the sculpting process, creating not just a statue, but a symbol of the artistic expression of the ideological liberation movement. As the highest level of sculpture art works of an era, David will always radiate endless glory in the history of art.
For its preservation, the original David is housed in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, while a replica stands in front of the City Hall for people from all over the world to enjoy.
Michelangelo lived in the era of social unrest in Italy, and the displaced life made him doubt the era in which he lived. Suffering and disappointed, he poured his own thoughts into his artistic creation, but also looked for his own ideals, and created a series of heroic images as majestic as giants, strong and brave. David is the most outstanding representative of this kind of thinking.
David is a young hero in the Bible, who once killed Goliath, the Philistine giant who invaded the Jews, and defended the city and people of his country. Michelangelo did not follow the previous scene of David crushing the head of the enemy under his feet after defeating the enemy, but chose the state of David when he met the battle. In this piece, David is a muscular, well-proportioned young man. He stood confidently, with his right hand hanging down, his head turned to the left, his face handsome, his bright eyes staring into the distance, as if he were searching the horizon for enemies, ready to fight a new battle. David's physique is majestic, his expression is brave and strong, his body, face and muscles are tense and full, reflecting the external and internal idealized male beauty. The young hero stared straight ahead, his expression full of concentrated tension and strong will, and the great power stored in his body seemed ready to burst out at any moment. Unlike his predecessors' habit of showing the scene after the battle, Michelangelo here portrays the moment before the characters have passion, making the work more appealing in art. His posture seems to be somewhat like resting, but the body posture shows a certain nervous emotion, so that people have a strong feeling of "moving in silence". The statue is carved from a whole block of stone. In order to make the statue look more majestic on the base, the artist intentionally enlarged the head and two arms of the figure, making David appear more upright and powerful in the audience's perspective, full of a sense of giant.
This statue is considered to be one of the most vaunted male body statues in the history of Western art. Not only that, "David" is the concrete embodiment of the humanistic thought of the Renaissance, its praise of the human body, on the surface, is the "revival" of ancient Greek art, in essence, it indicates that people have been freed from the dark medieval shackles, and fully realize the huge power of man in transforming the world. Michelangelo injected great passion into the sculpting process, creating not just a statue, but a symbol of the artistic expression of the ideological liberation movement. As the highest level of sculpture art works of an era, David will always radiate endless glory in the history of art.
For its preservation, the original David is housed in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, while a replica stands in front of the City Hall for people from all over the world to enjoy.
