Another deep and wonderful moment in my life was to look at David, the colossal statues of pure perfection and proportion, without doubt, the beauty! Actually, it's pretty humbling to stand before the other Michelangelo masterpiece and be moved to the spiritual, so intellectually, artistically so. I've waited 18 years since his student days of attendance of art history and writing my final paper in this magnificent part of the sculpture, to see David and now we were just moments away. My heart was pounding! After a morning city tour of Florence, we made our way to the Accademia Gallery to see Michelangelo's David. We entered the museum and immediately in front of you, the end of a long corridor flanked by giant sculptures unfinished, more on those later, David, rising boldly above the crowd of tourists who were on honey bees around the base of the pedestal.
sculpture stands in the court room designed and built specifically to house the statue until 1873, stood in the Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio van. Due to wear and erosion, the city of Florence and David moved here in 1910, the replica is placed on the table, where David was standing more than 300 years. After completing his famous "Pieta" in Rome in 1499, is discussed in my article about Rome, Michelangelo finished David in 1504, aged 29 and 8 September of the same year, was presented the city of Florence. From what began as a 18 foot block of marble rejected because of another sculptor who thought that the stone is damaged beyond repair, Michelangelo saw the piece as an opportunity to get rid of David from his prison of stone. The statue was originally intended to be one of twelve of the Old Testament sculptures sit on top of the Duomo or Santa Maria del Fiore, however, the final resting place will be outside the Palazzo Vecchio and the town board to decide which included Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli.
Can you imagine surrounded by a proliferation of creative genius in Florence at this time? Like many of the sights I saw during my trip so far, this took my breath away again. a giant statue of a giant ready to stand and rising 17 meters. To see the chiseled body rendered in such beauty, such an incredibly subtle and realistic detail is beyond words. Michelangelo captures the moment when David first laid eyes on his enemy, and mounting tension in his neck outstretched, he reaches into his slingshot to slay the mighty Goliath. Carefully muscles, the veins in his hands, the total mercy of his physique. Indeed, there is a sculpture before or after, never surpassed David. It is inconceivable that it was once thought worthless piece of marble. This statue is actually one of three of David, which is located in Florence.
There is a replica of the Piazza della Signoria, which I mentioned above, while the other stands high on a hilltop in Oltrarno, on the other side of Arno, in the Piazzale Michelangelo. On its approach to David, and go through the hallway house "unfinished" sculptures that Michelangelo completed in the latter part of his life. Faded in comparison, but still can not ignore, and "prisoners" or "slaves" or "non-finito" sculpture was originally intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II. However, some scientists believe that Michelangelo intended to leave them unfinished, and today, it was discussed to the point of exhaustion. In any case, you really get a sense of extraordinary amount of work that goes into sculpting.
If you look closely at these, you can see the marks left by different sculptural tools that the time "freed these prisoners out of their graves" of marble as Michelangelo often liked to put it. After Michelangelo's death, images obtained Cosimo I who were placed in the Boboli Gardens at Pitti Palace, where they stood until the 1909th As you tour the rest of the Accademia, you will find more paintings, sculptures, musical instruments to name a few, but there is nothing in the world like a mighty David and only one artist whose hand, guided by a great gift bestowed upon him, he could create a It belongs to the hand, of course, Michelangelo! This is absolutely one museum that should be on all travel itineraries when visiting Florence. Make sure to get your museum tickets in advance to avoid the extremely long queues.
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