Michelangelo's David : Florentine History and Civic Identity
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
110704359X
ISBN-13
9781107043596
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 2015
Print length
399 Pages
Weight
1 grams
Dimensions
18.90 x 26.10 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Renaissance artSculptureIndividual artists, art monographsEuropean history
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This book presents new archival sources, suggests new interpretations of the David, and connects the statue to contemporary historical events in Florence. Intended both for the general reader and for a scholarly audience, it will interest historians of popular culture, art historians, and historians generally.
"This book takes a new look at the interpretations of, and the historical information surrounding, Michelangelo''s David. New documentary materials discovered by Rolf Bagemihl add to the early history of the stone block that became the David and provide an identity for the painted terracotta colossus that stood on the cathedral buttresses for which Michelangelo''s statue was to be a companion. The David, with its placement at the Palazzo della Signoria, was deeply implicated in the civic history of Florence, where public nakedness played a ritual role in the military and in the political lives of its people. This book, then, places the David not only within the artistic history of Florence and its monuments but also within the popular culture of the periodas well"--
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