Gianlorenzo Bernini's David Analysis

Gianlorenzo Bernini’s David is a historical piece of marble art that shows great emotion and engages the viewers in action. Bernini’s David could possibly be mistaken as a major league pitcher throwing a 95 mile an hour fastball. He gathers all his strength for each one of his pitches and puts all his effort into it. But this specific life size piece of marble sculpture has a different meaning to it. Some may not know exactly, but the emotion in Davids face tells a whole different story. The one issue viewers have with this sculpture of this man is that they don’t know the full meaning as to why he’s pulling a rope with a stone from behind him. The sculpture of Bernini’s David shows an emotional, historical, and cultural man that has an …show more content…
These great patrons of art and the most powerful political family commissioned Donatello’s David, Michelangelo’ s David, and Bernini’s David. The Donatello david was the first of its kind to be commissioned and was the first standing nude in the history of art since ancient times. Donatello’s david is portrayed as an older warrior that is completely dressed to show that Florence was willing to fight for their freedom. Florence was a source for finance and trade but it was somewhat small compared to Rome or other city states. This city eventually adopted David. When David killed Goliath, it become a symbol of the city. Unlike Donatello’s david, Bernini’s version has a lighter style of armor to it. The subject of David was mostly only popular in the baroque era in Rome so that they could potentially compete against renaissance artists. In the baroque era, artists typically only present David in two different ways. Bernini’ s creation has a classical and idealized feel to it but Caravaggio painting is more gritty and lack of detail. Bernini gives the audience an exciting moment as David is about to throw a stone with all his strength straight towards