FIGURE 4.22 Donatello, David with the Head of Goliath, begun c. 1459

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Description: David with the Head of Goliath

TitleDavid with the Head of Goliath

Creator nameDonatello

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleSculptor

Creation datec. 1430–1440

Creation date (description)c. 1430s

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsBronze

DimensionsHeight 72 7/8 in. (185 cm)

LocationMuseo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

SubjectsHistory of Biblical events--ArtDavid, King of Israel--ArtBeheading in artMale nude in artSculpture, Renaissance--Italy

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1. Nakedness in Renaissance Italy

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The Italian Renaissance Nude

To understand why the nude became such a privileged form in the visual arts from the Renaissance onward, it is necessary to explore what contemporary people understood by nakedness. As we shall see in the chapters that...

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Jill Burke

PublisherYale University Press

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4. Seeing and Being Seen

Patricia Lee Rubin

Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence

In October 1462 Francesco Sforza, the Duke of Milan, ordered three dozen pairs of eyeglasses from Florence, “because there are many who request of us eyeglasses that are made there … since it is reputed that they are made more perfectly [there] than in any other place in Italy” He had previously ordered eighteen pairs, and soon after he died his successor, Galeazzo Maria, ordered fifty more, “perfectly made according to the ages specified in the list.” The picture of the bespectacled court with …

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Patricia Lee Rubin

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4. Artifex Viator

David Young Kim

The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style

As Vasari recounts in Part I of the Lives, the mobility of Giotto and his pupils eradicates monstrous styles, disseminating the modern manner in their stead. Presumably the reader can now witness the upward trajectory of central Italian style undisturbed. Artistic achievements, and not place with its attendant connotations of potentially harmful or salubrious aria, would seem to take center stage. It was not his intention, Vasari declares, “to discover their [artists’] numbers, their names, and …

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David Young Kim

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Chapter subject tags:Vasari, Giorgio, 1562-1625Painting, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceFlorence (Italy)--HistoryPrints, Renaissance--ItalyBrunelleschi, Filippo, 1377-1446Pictorial maps, RenaissanceDonatello, 1386?-1466Sculpture, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceItinerant artists--Italy

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