Accademia Gallery in Florence "David" by Michelangelo Italian Renaissance artist. – Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Accademia Gallery in Florence "David" by Michelangelo Italian Renaissance artist. – Louvre Abu Dhabi.

We're in the Academia in Florence, to see the sculpture by Michelangelo David. That was never intended to be seen, inside a museum. This sculpture was commissioned to decorate the outside of a cathedral. Which for such a young sculptor was an enormous honor. He was 26 years old. The sculpture is so big because it was meant to be placed high up on the cathedral, 40 feet above street level. And so in order for it to be visible, it had to be big.

In addition, since it was had to be viewed from down, it was distorted from the general structure of the human body by adding a three-dimensional effect, making the head appear larger. Michelangelo was given the commission just on the heels of his success in Rome, the Pieta, and it was such an outstanding success that the Florentines as well.

Michelangelo, this love of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and competing with those ancient models. Florence wanted to see itself as the inheritor of the great humanist traditions of ancient Rome, And the very stance of the sculpture with its weight on the right leg is taken directly from classical antiquity. This is a stance that we call contrapposto.

By putting the meaning of creating a new world by defeating evil in the story of David in the Bible, it means the affirmation of the republic following the reign of the Medici family and Savonarola. The sculpture was so clearly now a symbol of the Florentine Republic. Sometimes stones were thrown at the sculpture by some people who were loyal to the Medici. So it really looks at a very potent political symbol in addition to almost superhuman achievement. It's no wonder that Michelangelo got the nickname IL Divino, the divine one.

But it's so interesting because the people who flock to see the sculpture today, are coming to see a work of art. This is a sculpture that was commissioned for a church for a religious context. Its meaning was transformed into an almost purely political one, And it's been transformed again in the context of our secular museum culture, into a work of art that can be understood as an expression of our history, our aesthetic appreciation, and perhaps most of all Michelangelo's mastery.

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