{"id":384,"date":"1999-08-10T20:13:23","date_gmt":"1999-08-10T10:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/?p=384"},"modified":"2023-02-15T23:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T12:05:24","slug":"david-a-study-on-michelangelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/david-a-study-on-michelangelo\/","title":{"rendered":"David, a study on Michelangelo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Study-on-David-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Study-on-David-2-137x350.jpg\" alt=\"Study on David 2\" width=\"137\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>46cm x 90cm Oil on canvas board.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Michelangelos sculpture at Florence. Phillip Carrero.<\/p>\n<p>To make this statue,\u00a0<strong>Michelangelo was given a piece of flawed marble that another artist had started<\/strong>\u00a0but given up. Indeed, he was asked to finish a sculpture of the David originally blocked out in 1464. It\u2019s documented that on Sept 9, 1501, he apparently knocked off a \u201ccertain knot\u201d that had been on the David\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n<p>Though\u00a0<a title=\"Leonardo da Vinci\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonardo_da_Vinci\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>\u00a0and others were consulted, it was Michelangelo, only twenty-six years old, who convinced the\u00a0<i>Operai<\/i>\u00a0that he deserved the commission. On 16 August 1501, Michelangelo was given the official contract to undertake this challenging new task.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork is much different from the previous statues made by other famous artists such as Verrocchio and Donatello.\u00a0<em>David\u00a0<\/em>by Michelangelo depicted the young David before he went on to his battle with the mighty Goliath. Hence, the figure\u2019s face appeared tense and set for combat instead of victorious because of his foe\u2019s defeat.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1504,\u00a0<i>David<\/i>was installed next to the entrance to the\u00a0<a title=\"Palazzo Vecchio\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palazzo_Vecchio\">Palazzo Vecchio<\/a>, replacing Donatello&#8217;s bronze sculpture of\u00a0<a title=\"Judith and Holofernes (Donatello)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_and_Holofernes_(Donatello)\">Judith and Holofernes<\/a>, which embodied a comparable theme of heroic resistance. It took four days to move the statue the half mile from Michelangelo&#8217;s workshop into the Piazza della Signoria<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>46cm x 90cm Oil on canvas board. Based on Michelangelos sculpture at Florence. Phillip Carrero. To make this statue,\u00a0Michelangelo was given a piece of flawed marble that another artist had started\u00a0but given up. Indeed, he was asked to finish a sculpture of the David originally blocked out in 1464. It\u2019s documented that on Sept 9,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-portrait-of-sculpture","category-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michelangelofineart.com.au\/wpart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}