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She left this morning but one final shot of RRS Sir David Attenborough at the Cruise Terminal in Liverpool
Brady likes to make up games. This one involves David dragging Brady around the floor using a stuffie. More fun for Brady than for David.
David from North Carolina. Was married once and then 'just kind of dropped out'. Doesn't mind working but can't seem to get himself out of his current state. Has lived on the streets of Santa Monica for seven years. Lilah, his dog, keeps him from being lonely. Even though she drives him crazy sometimes.
A closer look at the bottom right panel from the window by Edward Woore in the North Choir Aisle. It dates from 1932.
Here King Saul passes his sceptre to David, acknowledging him as his successor. The inscription reads, "Be Strong Therefore".
Salisbury Cathedral; July 2005
David Attenborough in graphite. Posting this again only because I've finally taken a proper photo of the final drawing.
David Gilmour, lead guitarist for Pink Floyd, during his "On an Island" tour concert at Radio City Music Hall on April 4, 2006. © Mark Estabrook. All rights reserved. Do not republish without prior agreement.
lead guitarist for Pink Floyd, during his "On an Island" tour concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 4, 2006. © Mark Estabrook. All rights reserved. Do not republish without prior agreement.
This is my uncle David and my dad during a recent visit to New Mexico. These two brothers have spent most of their lives together. Never seen them have an argument.
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David
El David es una escultura de mármol blanco de 5,17 metros de altura realizada por Miguel Ángel Buonarroti entre 1501 y 1504 por encargo de la Opera del Duomo de la catedral de Santa María del Fiore de Florencia.
El David es una de las obras maestras del Renacimiento según la mayoría de los historiadores.
David
The David is a 5.17 meter high white marble sculpture made by Michelangelo Buonarroti between 1501 and 1504 commissioned by the Opera del Duomo of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence.
David is one of the Renaissance masterpieces according to most historians.
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David Bowie - The Visionary Of The Future by Daniel Arrhakis (2016)
With the music : David Bowie - Wild Is The Wind
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David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie. Was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor.
My personal homage to this incredible artist that was a visionary of the future and arts ... a great lost for our World !
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Portrait of David Bowie (Modified for this work) based in a image of the film Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) directed by Nagisa Ôshima; Production Co: Recorded Picture Company (RPC), National Film Trustees, Oshima Productions and others.
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David
Michelangelo's David -
ArtistMichelangelo
Yearc. 1501 – June 8, 1504
MediumMarble sculpture
SubjectBiblical David
Dimensions517 cm × 199 cm (17 ft × 6.5 ft)
LocationGalleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
Preceded byPietà
Followed byMadonna of Bruges
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17-metre (17 ft 0 in) the David was the first colossal marble statue after antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, and in 1910 replaced at the original location by a replica.
The biblical figure David was a favoured subject in the art of Florence.[1] Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family.
History
Commission
The history of the statue begins before Michelangelo's work on it from 1501 to 1504.[2] Prior to Michelangelo's involvement, the Overseers of the Office of Works of Florence Cathedral, consisting mostly of members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the Arte della Lana, had plans to commission a series of twelve large sculptures for the buttresses of the cathedral.[3] In 1410, Donatello made the first of the statues, a figure of Joshua in terracotta. A figure of Hercules, also in terracotta, was commissioned from the Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio in 1463 and was made perhaps under Donatello's direction.[4] Eager to continue their project, in 1464, the operai contracted Agostino[5] to create a sculpture of David.
A block of marble was provided from a quarry in Carrara, a town in the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany. Agostino only got as far as beginning to shape the legs, feet, torso, roughing out some drapery, and probably gouging a hole between the legs. His association with the project ceased, for reasons unknown, with the death of Donatello in 1466, and ten years later Antonio Rossellino was commissioned to take up where Agostino had left off. Rossellino's contract was terminated soon thereafter, and the block of marble remained neglected for 26 years, all the while exposed to the elements in the yard of the cathedral workshop. This was of great concern to the opera authorities, as such a large piece of marble was not only costly, but represented a large amount of labour and difficulty in its transportation to Florence.
In 1500, an inventory of the cathedral workshops described the piece as "a certain figure of marble called David, badly blocked out and supine."[6] A year later, documents showed that the operai were determined to find an artist who could take this large piece of marble and turn it into a finished work of art. They ordered the block of stone, which they called 'the giant',[7] "raised on its feet" so that a master experienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though Leonardo da Vinci among others were consulted, and Andrea Sansovino was also keen to get the commission, it was Michelangelo, at 26 years of age, who convinced the operai that he deserved the commission.[8] On 16 August 1501, Michelangelo was given the official contract to undertake this challenging new task. It said:
"... the Consuls of the Arte della Lana and the Lords Overseers being met Overseers, have chosen as sculptor to the said Cathedral the worthy master, Michelangelo, the son of Lodovico Buonarrotti, a citizen of Florence, to the end that he may make, finish and bring to perfection the male figure known as the Giant, nine braccia in height, already blocked out in marble by Maestro Agostino grande, of Florence, and badly blocked; and now stored in the workshops of the Cathedral. The work shall be completed within the period and term of two years next ensuing, beginning from the first day of September..."[5]
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo.
The statue is massive at 17 feet tall and more than 12,000 pounds, and is sculpted from a single block of white Carrara marble. The block of marble used to carve "David" had been worked on more than 50 years earlier by Donatello. That project was abandoned because the marble was said to have been flawed.