#7. Baroque Art.

In different time period, Bernini and Michelangelo made two different David statues. Basically period and size are difference between both of them but the way how to express David in two different ways is the big difference. David statue by Michelangelo made in 1501-1504 and it is about 17 inch out of marble. In High Renaissance period, artist usually expressed their ideals such as humanism, naturalism, idealism, and visual harmony. Also, in this David statue, Michelangelo shows us everything in it. The reason why Michelangelo’s David is became a masterpiece is that it visually epitomizes the principles of humanism. And this David is nude statue and I think that this should be express naturalism. In addition, as we known that Michelangelo always made a visual harmony as perfectly and it shows in this David as well. Instead of showing active movement, Michelangelo shows us an ideal, muscular, mature David with every single detail in our body such as hair, eyes, hand with rock and tiptoe things. Also, Michelangelo depicted the moment of just before David battling with Goliath. I guess that he used to like Classical sculpture because David is made out of contraposto pose. Essentially, for the contraposto pose, the typical Greek face, and muscular body should be in the form. When we skim through this David, it might be hard to find any subject things. However, when we look closely in face, hand, and tiptoe, we could know that this David is ready to fight with Goliath. In his face, he is looking straight at someone and pulling a long face. In his right hand, it is exaggerated but we could know that rock must be in side of his hand. Also his foot is exaggerated and we could know that he is just about to start fight with Goliath.  In Italian Baroque period, Bernini made another David statue and it is made in 1623 about in 5feet 7inches out of marble. In Baroque period, artists are rejected Renaissance ideals and expressed what they wanted. As we can see, this David statue have really active pose and it is expressed the moment of during the fight with Goliath. Bernini shows that angry David just about to sling the rock to front of Goliath. David’s face looks angry and his mouth tightened into a thin line express that a man who have duel ahead and determined will. I guess that this David depicted simply than Michelangelo’s David because this David expressed all the things through his body and it feels like no more stories beyond that. The muscles in his legs are tight for stepping to Goliath and his arms and chest looks like full tensed before make a power for throwing the rock. This David is not nude statue compare with Michelangelo’s David but I think also it could be good way to express their feel. We could not see the all the Renaissance ideals but I feel like I can see the realism through this David.