Question

1. Compare and contrast Bernini's sculpture David to earlier sculptures of David. What are the similarities and differences?

Answer 1

Donatello’s sculpture of David was made out of bronze and stood 5 feet 2 ½ inchestall. Donatello’s version of David shows little muscle structure. It seems as though this versionof David has a more girlish figure. For example, the way David is standing with hips slightlytilted and a curled wrist placed on his hip, appears to me to be more of a ladies pose. A couplemore examples are the way he placed the curly looking hair, the leaves around the hat that iscurled upward and the forward position of one of his legs. This sculpture, to me, does not depictstrength.