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Michelangelo’s 17-foot tall David lives up to its reputation as a great work of art, and Florence has done very well in displaying the 500+ year-old sculpture in an accessible and visually-pleasing setting. Installed at the Accademia Gallery (rather than the Uffizi Gallery as many people mistakenly assume), the hall is flooded with natural light from a skylight above. While the Accademia is expensive and more difficult to find than the Uffizi, the line is far shorter and amazingly they allow non-flash photography. With the light pouring in from above one can easily do hand held and still get great shots.
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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was placed instead in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.
Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, and the eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome. The statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica.
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The Madonna of Bruges is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo of Mary with the Child Jesus.
Michelangelo's depiction of the Madonna and Child differs significantly from earlier representations of the same subject, which tended to feature a pious Virgin smiling down on an infant held in her arms. Instead, Jesus stands upright, almost unsupported, only loosely restrained by Mary's left hand, and appears to be about to step away from his mother.
Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni 1475 – 1564 Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since also been described as one of the greatest artists of all time.He is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and fellow Florentine Medici client, Leonardo da Vinci.
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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]
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Porta San Giovanni is one of the doors that open in the Aurora Walls of Rome, and has its name, unchanged in time, near the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
It is structured in a single great arch by Pope Gregory XIII, perhaps by Giacomo Della Porta or, most probably, by Giacomo Del Duca, who had already collaborated with Michelangelo in the construction of Porta Pia. It was inaugurated in 1574 and its opening, made necessary by the restructuring of the entire Lateran area to facilitate traffic from and to the south of Italy, decreed the closure of the nearby and much more impressive Asinari Gate, aurelian, which has become almost inadmissible for the progressive rise of the surrounding road level and also for this reason totally inadequate to support the volume of traffic.
The structure confirms the use for which it had been conceived: it is more like the entrance of a villa than that of a defensive work, completely free of lateral towers, bastions and merlature, instead of a marked bark and a simple ornament composed of a big bearded face at the top of the door itself, on the outside.
More than the historical and military events of particular importance, Porta S. Giovanni is linked to the popular Roman traditions, today virtually disappeared, in particular the one related to the "Night of St. John" on 23 June, the "night of witches" the great outdoor party that was so dear to the Romans.
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Porta San Giovanni è una delle porte che si aprono nelle Mura aureliane di Roma, e deve il suo nome, immutato nel tempo, alla vicinanza alla Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano.
È strutturata in un unico grande arco realizzato da papa Gregorio XIII ad opera forse di Giacomo Della Porta o, più probabilmente, di Giacomo Del Duca, che già aveva collaborato con Michelangelo alla realizzazione di Porta Pia. Venne inaugurata nel 1574 e la sua apertura, resa necessaria nell'ambito della ristrutturazione dell'intera area del Laterano per agevolare il traffico da e per il sud d'Italia, decretò la definitiva chiusura della vicina e ben più imponente Porta Asinaria, di epoca aureliana, divenuta ormai quasi inagibile per il progressivo innalzamento del livello stradale circostante e anche per questo del tutto inadeguata a sostenere il volume di traffico.
La struttura conferma l'utilizzo per cui era stata concepita: è infatti più simile a quella dell'entrata di una villa che non a quella di un'opera difensiva, del tutto priva com'è di torri laterali, di bastioni e di merlature, e fornita invece di una marcata bugnatura e di un semplice ornamento composto da un grosso viso barbuto in cima alla porta stessa, sul lato esterno.
Più che ad avvenimenti storici e militari di particolare rilievo, Porta S. Giovanni è legata alle tradizioni popolari romane, oggi praticamente scomparse, in particolare quella relativa alla "Notte di San Giovanni", il 23 giugno, la "notte delle streghe", con la grande festa all'aperto un tempo tanto cara ai romani.
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.
Last Judgment (1594) - Ferraù Fenzoni called the Faenzone (Faenza, 1562 - Faenza, 11 April 1645) counter-façade of the Todi's Cathedral
affresco di Ferraù Fenzoni detto "il Faenzone" raffigurante il Giudizio Universale, opera eseguita nel 1594 circa, che prende spunto dal Giudizio Universale di Michelangelo (1536-1541) nella Cappella Sistina.
fresco of Ferraù Fenzoni called "the Faenzone" representing the Last Judgment, work executed in 1594 approximately, that takes inspiration from the Last Judgment of Michelangelo (1536-1541) in the Sistine Chapel.
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Ever since ancient times, marble has been extracted from the Apuan Alps. Carrara has been acknowledged for the exceptional quality of its white or blue-gray marble and supplied the Roman Empire for the construction of the most prestigious monuments that make the glory of Rome.
The Pantheon and the Trajan's Column in Rome are built of Carrara Marble. A famous saying of Augustus is: "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble" ("Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi"). Many sculptures of the Renaissance (the David from Michelangelo, amongst many others) were also carved in marble blocks extracted from the Carrara’s quarry
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The Moses by Michelangelo, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, can be dated from 1513-1515. That would make Michelangelo Buonarroti around 38 year old and at the height of his genius.
Michelangelo's Moses is 8' 4" (or 254 cm high) and was originally meant to be viewed from below as part of the enormous tomb of Pope Julius II. The statue was proportioned for viewing from below but the tomb would never come to be and now Moses sits in the center at the base of the bottom tier.
The setting is that of a prophet, posed on a marble chair, between two decorated marble columns. This is suppose to capture Moses when he descended from the mountain and found his people worshiping the Golden Calf. I think my first upload did a better job of capturing that anger and this warmer version captures a different look. There are a range of emotions to be found while viewing this masterpiece.