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Michelangelo´s David: Florentine History and Civic Identity
John T. Paoletti
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Description for Michelangelo´s David: Florentine History and Civic Identity
hardcover. This book presents new archival sources, suggests new interpretations of the David, and connects the statue to contemporary historical events in Florence. Num Pages: 399 pages, 82 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND; AFC; AGB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 189 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 996.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
399
Condition
New
Number of Pages
399
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107043596
SKU
V9781107043596
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About John T. Paoletti
John T. Paoletti is Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, and the William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University. He taught the history of Italian Renaissance art and of the art of the twentieth century from 1972 to 2009. He received Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching ... Read more
Reviews for Michelangelo´s David: Florentine History and Civic Identity
'Michelangelo's David is a valuable link in an ongoing chain of Michelangelo studies, and a detailed study of the extended history and ambiguity of the statue's historical, civic, political, and Christian connotations …' Joost Joustra, Oxford Art Journal