How Did Michelangelo Made The Statue David?
Have you ever wondered how Michelangelo Buonarroti made the statue David? Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the high renaissance. It was believed that rivalry between city-states of renaissance Italy and the splendors of Milan provoked the Florentine authorities to commission colossal figures to rein the rooftop of their cathedral. The David for Florence Italy is the symbol of republican liberty, a young boy with the help of God overcome his tyrant. For the Florentine’s this David is their symbol, a weak city confronting them and overcoming their tyrant. How did Michelangelo made the David?
The first man who was commissioned to make the David was Agostino Di Duccio an assistant sculptor of the …show more content…
His father beat him when he told him that he wanted to be a painter, and also his uncle. But the young Michelangelo did not stop pursuing his ambition and became a sculptor, which made his father much more unhappy because a sculptor has more physical activities involved in his work rather than a painter.
Thirty-five years has passed since the blocks were left behind and the cathedral authorities are now concerned that the blocks will be put to waste. Imagine the hardship of the people who quarried the blocks and the money spent for the blocks to be delivered to Florence. So the cathedral authorities decided to move forward with their colossal ambition, which is the David.
Michelangelo was enticed to do the work on the David. Michelangelo was a junior sculptor so landing the commission for the job is another story, and his reputation in his works rest only on hearsay. But Michelangelo brings something special to this task. What separates Michelangelo from other sculptors in his time was his analytical approach to his sculptures. Michelangelo was granted to study dead corpses; he documented the detailed parts of the body from the skeletal, muscle, and skin, which he used for the David. He made several drawings, which will be soon the David. Michelangelo commissioned the job by showing them a wax figure of how the David will like, but he was only given two years to finish the contract. Using only three types
The first man who was commissioned to make the David was Agostino Di Duccio an assistant sculptor of the …show more content…
His father beat him when he told him that he wanted to be a painter, and also his uncle. But the young Michelangelo did not stop pursuing his ambition and became a sculptor, which made his father much more unhappy because a sculptor has more physical activities involved in his work rather than a painter.
Thirty-five years has passed since the blocks were left behind and the cathedral authorities are now concerned that the blocks will be put to waste. Imagine the hardship of the people who quarried the blocks and the money spent for the blocks to be delivered to Florence. So the cathedral authorities decided to move forward with their colossal ambition, which is the David.
Michelangelo was enticed to do the work on the David. Michelangelo was a junior sculptor so landing the commission for the job is another story, and his reputation in his works rest only on hearsay. But Michelangelo brings something special to this task. What separates Michelangelo from other sculptors in his time was his analytical approach to his sculptures. Michelangelo was granted to study dead corpses; he documented the detailed parts of the body from the skeletal, muscle, and skin, which he used for the David. He made several drawings, which will be soon the David. Michelangelo commissioned the job by showing them a wax figure of how the David will like, but he was only given two years to finish the contract. Using only three types