{"id":9803,"date":"2022-04-17T20:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T20:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancestralsculptures.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9803"},"modified":"2023-08-22T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T22:59:10","slug":"michelangelos-david","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.ancestralsculptures.com\/es_es\/producto\/michelangelos-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Bust of David by Michelangelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The history of the statue begins before\u00a0Michelangelo&#8217;s work on it from 1501 to 1504.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>Prior to Michelangelo&#8217;s involvement, the Overseers of the Office of Works of\u00a0Florence Cathedral, consisting mostly of members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the\u00a0Arte della Lana, had plans to commission a series of twelve large\u00a0Old Testament\u00a0sculptures for the\u00a0buttresses\u00a0of the cathedral.<sup id=\"cite_ref-7\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0In 1410,\u00a0Donatello\u00a0made the first of the statues, a figure of\u00a0Joshua\u00a0in\u00a0terracotta. A figure of\u00a0Hercules, also in terracotta, was commissioned from the Florentine sculptor\u00a0Agostino di Duccio\u00a0in 1463 and was made perhaps under Donatello&#8217;s direction.<sup id=\"cite_ref-8\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0Eager to continue their project, in 1464, the\u00a0<i>Operai<\/i>\u00a0contracted Agostino<sup id=\"cite_ref-Milanesi_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0to create a sculpture of David.<\/p>\n<p>A block of\u00a0marble\u00a0was provided from a quarry in\u00a0Carrara, a town in the\u00a0Apuan Alps\u00a0in northern Tuscany. Agostino only got as far as beginning to shape the legs, feet, torso, roughing out some\u00a0drapery, 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\u00a0Antonio Rossellino\u00a0was commissioned to take up where Agostino had left off. Rossellino&#8217;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\u00a0<i>Opera<\/i>\u00a0authorities, 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.<\/p>\n<p>In 1500, an inventory of the cathedral workshops described the piece as &#8220;a certain figure of marble called David, badly blocked out and supine.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>A year later, documents showed that the\u00a0<i>Operai<\/i>\u00a0were 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 &#8216;the Giant&#8217;,<sup id=\"cite_ref-11\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>&#8220;raised on its feet&#8221; so that a master experienced in this kind of work might examine it and express an opinion. Though\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci\u00a0and others were consulted, it was Michelangelo, at 26 years of age, who convinced the\u00a0<i>Operai<\/i>\u00a0that he deserved the commission.<sup id=\"cite_ref-12\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>On 16 August 1501, Michelangelo was given the official contract to undertake this challenging new task.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Milanesi_9-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He began carving the statue early in the morning on 13 September, a month after he was awarded the contract. 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