Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained

[Uncle Joe]

[Bayard]

1. Bookmarking

[WhiteTara]

2. ditto

[jmbar2]

3. Fascinating - many thanks for posting!

[Chainfire]

4. Thanks for that post!

The detail is just amazing.

It is a good thing that David is in Italy rather than Texas or Florida; (or any number of other red states) they would have him destroyed as porn.

[Maraya1969]

5. That was fascinating. Thank you so much for posting it. I have never seen the statue

and never studied art so I learned a lot!

[Ocelot II]

6. Very interesting! Thanks for posting this.

[ashredux]

7. When you walk into the rotunda and see the statue, it's like being in a cathedral. There's almost complete silence

Amazing, just amazing… until you see it in person, it’s hard to understand the magnificent nature of it

[LudwigPastorius]

8. "Great Art Explained"

Do they explain why Michelangelo depicted him as a ‘grower and not a shower’?

[CaptainTruth]

9. Until I saw it in person I didn't realize how big it was.

It's truly impressive & much larger than the thousands of other statues I've seen in museums throughout Italy. The scale really takes you back.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. I also didn't realize how big it is...or that it depicts THAT David! It was only when I saw a smaller

nearby statue of David standing on the severed head of Goliath, that it dawned on me who THIS David was supposed to be.
I mean, this David is just standing there with a towel over his shoulder. He doesn't seem like the guy who just knocked out their champion with a rock in a shepherd's sling.

And, now from this video, I learn that this is David BEFORE he decided to do battle with the giant.