Bernini, sculptor. Apollo and Daphne, detail, 1622–25. Galleria Borghese, Rome. http://romepix.com pic.twitter.com/RE09vOoZp9
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Bernini, sculptor. Apollo and Daphne, detail, 1622–25. Galleria Borghese, Rome. http://romepix.com pic.twitter.com/RE09vOoZp9
Stendhal thought the Cavalier Bernin responsible for what he termed "the decadence of Italian sculpture" - one sees where he's coming from: his David is vulgar and the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi a crime, but some of his works breathe true life, and great talent if not genius.
Bernini's David is one of the best sculptures of David because of the determination on his face, and the perfection of his body posture indicating the effort of his task. He evokes emotion and the story is told in rare form as he is about to fight Goliath before he wins or loses.pic.twitter.com/lknmnyxQDd
Michaelangelo's is a Greek symbolically enlarged marvel, and yet he looks like he is waiting to prance on a lewd catwalk. Donatello's bronze talent can't quell the shudder in my spine at the 12 year old fashion plate catamite David who looks like he couldn't swat a fly.
Michelangelo represented David as Goliath, David here is the giant. This sculpture is a network of tensions rather than the depiction of a human being. It is violently anti-antique and barely figurative, hence the inhuman proportions of David. A very strange work indeed.
Pretty sure he just made those proportions to convey he was a boy 12 - 14 or so, as everyone in Michelangelo was muscular, even the women.
No, the David is designedly out of proportion; left hand for example is smaller than the right. Adductor muscles in Michelangelo's paintings are usually tense.
It's not clear how much of that was intentional and how much was due to the marble having flaws in it that forced him to omit chiselling certain parts too deeply.
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