You have to be present before Michelangelo's David to understand why we are facing one of the most famous sculptures and iconic art. This masterpiece from the Renaissance period was completed in 1504 when Michelangelo was only 29 years old.
To this day, every year 8 million people They visit the Gallery of the Academy of Florence to contemplate in situ the details that this sculpture treasures that represents the biblical King David in the moment before facing Goliath. Now we have a few very close photographs that lend themselves to showing the details of this great work.
The David is a 5,17 meter white marble sculpture height and 5572 kilograms of mass. It was made by Michelangelo Buonarroti between 1501 and 1505 commissioned by the Opera del Duomo in the Cathedral of Santa María del Fiore in Florence.
It is a of the Renaissance masterpieces according to most historians and one of the most famous sculptures in the world. A sculpture that Michelangelo began sculpting from a single block of white marble.
A sculpture that stands magnificently from a distance, but if one approaches to appreciate the details, one can be amazed by the study that is in itself of human anatomy.
It was Michelangelo himself who had these words about his own work:
If people I knew how hard I got to work To have this mastery of sculpture, this would not seem so wonderful after all.
Miguel Angel died in 1564 at the age of 88But it will be his statue of David that will last forever. A Michelangelo who needed sketches, drawings and small-scale models of wax or terracotta, to carry those preliminary studies to work on marble, without making a full-scale plaster model, as other artists of the time did.
It is one of those works that you have to try visit once in a lifetime of one if art is one of your passions.