Compare And Contrast David And Apoxyomeno

The Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1503-6, is oil on panel. It is a three quarter portrait of a young, Florentine woman. She is sitting in a chair with her torso twisting around to face the viewer. Her hands are resting on the arm of the chair. Behind the woman in the background is a landscape very characteristic of many Leonardo paintings. The Mona Lisa was painted toward the end of Leonardo’s career. In contrast, the David created by Michelangelo around 1501-4, is a marble sculpture of the biblical hero David. The seventeen foot tall statue depicts a young man standing in contrapposto. Most of his weight is supported with is right leg, while his left leg is relaxed. He holds

The first thing you notice about sculpture is the texture of it, it feels smooth, like its made of a clay yet it has a lot of depth and value, the skull itself isn’t proportional since it is tilted to

The statue of Dionysus is influenced by Greek classical styles because it has a contrapposto pose with the right arm and right leg stiff and the

The Torso of Aphrodite was constructed in the 1st century A.D. and is made entirely of marble. The torso used to belong to a life-sized version statue of The Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. From the moment I saw this piece, I knew I was attracted to it in a deeper way. It

David is extremely buff, a quality that was highly revered during the Greek and Roman eras, and he shows off the male body very well. He is in a slight contraposto stance, where the artist illustrates the natural counterbalance of the body through the bending of the hips in one direction and the legs in another direction.

“Statue of David” by Michelangelo and “Unity Forms of Continuity in Space” by Umberto Boccioni, are two very different sculpture. But in some ways, they are similar. These two artists’ works have similar aspects to the appearances of their sculptures. But there are more differences then similarities. The time that the sculpture was built are separate dates. They did build them in a similar place. Their sculptures also portrayed a strong message for both.

The pieces of art I will be comparing and contrasting are the three statues of David, by Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi), Michelangelo (Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), and Bernini (Gian Lorenzo Bernini). The statues are modeled after the biblical David, who was destined to become the second king of Israel. Also most famously known as the slayer of the Philistine giant Goliath with a stone and a sling. The sculptures are all based on the same biblical hero, but differ from one another. Each David is unique in its own certain way.

There have been many staues of David sculpted by famous artists like Donatello, Verrocchio, and Michelangelo. Bernini’s version of David and is about to begin his attack on Goliath, as he appears posing. The statue seems to be moving through space and the action suggests that the action of flinging the stone requires a lot of room around David. The statue forces the observer to look past the actual subject and focus more on the surroundings. He seems to have very muscular legs, and appears to be ready to turn and throw a stone from his sling. This is the most dramatic pose that Bernini could have picked and was chosen because it shows a sudden burst of energy and a moment of suspense as well. Bernini’s David is different from that of

Unlike the previous two pieces, Bernini could capture his form in a pose that is supposed to be happening during the fight. The grotesque way Bernini makes his body twist and bends creates an illusion in our mind that he is about to send the stone flying to deliver the killing blow to Goliath’s forehead. This form of Baroque art creates images in the mind to help us understand what the piece has or will be doing. Bernini creates a sense of action and drama with this piece with diagonal lines created throughout the sculpture. Also, unlike the pieces created by Michelangelo and Donatello, Bernini created his version of David without sculpting him in the nude. This was more of a widespread form for the time that Bernini created the

Introduction According to Merriam Webster, the action or art of processing (as by carving, modeling, or welding) plastic or hard materials into works of art is considered a sculpture. (Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, n.d.) Sculptures tell us the history ancient civilizations, it gave us an insight into their daily lives, fashion sense, festivities ect. Romans learned the art of sculpting and painting from the Greek and Etruscans around the 1st and 2nd century AD.

Donatello created the sculpture of David in true resurgence style of triumph, elegance, and pride. As it is well known in David’s several depictions, he was to use a stone to kill Goliath. In that statue, Donatello made the moment after the David had killed Goliath. It is fascinating that the story proposes strength and masculinity, but looking at the statue, it is possible to feel ambiguity in the representation (Kleine, 34). This idea is strengthened the way that young David is indicated in the predominant feminine S-curved pose while the contrast is made by David holding the sword of Goliath establishing physical appearance. In tradition sculptural, the flamboyant and ambiguous statue like this one had not been seen (Kleine, 35).

Their bodies are defined and muscular. We know that Michelangelo spent time in Rome, becoming impressed with the muscular bodies of hellenistic sculptures. He was interested in their heroic scale and superhuman power and beauty, incorporating that into his own works, especially in his David. We also know that Bernini spent time in Rome as well, perhaps also being influenced by the hellenistic sculptures. Both of the sculptures are also seen in the nude, and if not almost nude. David is completely nude, while St. Lawrence has a small drape of clothing covering himself.

Michelangelo created a 17 foot statue, David (1504) that Bernini studied to make his own depiction of the scene. The most noticeable difference between the two is that Michelangelo’s sculpture is nude while Bernini’s is clothed to an extent. Bernini utilizes the contapposto technique in his story of David, a technique taken straight from Michelangelo. Bernini plays with the immediacy of the scene, something that he does frequently, by depicting the moment right before the climax hits, when David kills Goliath. The movement in the sculpture, the moment before the release of the rock from the sling engages with Michelangelo’s sculpture of David. Michelangelo decided to show David before he

An important study of alignment was made during the time of classical sculpture. Contrappdosto, an italian term meaning to counterpose, is used to describe when a figure balances most weight on one foot and has a slight twist to the hip. In classical sculpture such as the Kritios Boy, contrapposto was used to

The mass of the sculpture can be clearly seen based on the fact that it is a 3D art work. The texture of the sculpture can be seen in the hair and cloth covering David. The space surrounding the piece accentuates the curved pose. The value in the piece is seen in the lower part of the body and the cloth that is falling off the body. The color of the marble slowly changes as the eye follows the path down to the base of the