ARTHI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Florence Cathedral, Parapet
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Michelangelo was primarily a painter but did some sculpting. Originally intended to go on one of the buttresses on florence cathedral. Actually set in front of an important government building. This statue maybe over-emphasizes the tension in his arm and hand muscles. Donatello"s is under life-size and cast in bronze. Michelangelo shows him before he had slain goliath, holding a rock and sling. Michelangelo looked at roman copies when designing his david. Like the doryphorous and apoxymenos, built on a stump. Original idea shows that it would be in the traditional pose, after defeating. David with the sling and i with the bow . Leonardo da vinci, oldest of trio, born in 1452. True renaissance man, interested in science and art, didn"t see a difference between them. Sought to discover laws of nature through science. Catch man and the attention of his soul, latter is hard. Drawing of hillside village and storm clouds above.
