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 period as well.
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Weight: 1000g
Dimensions: 185 x 265mm
Publication Date: 12 Feb 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781107043596
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 of Art History Award. He has been a Fellow at the School of Historical Studies the Institute of Advanced Study Princeton and a visiting professor at the Villa I Tatti. From 1996 to 2000 he was the editor-in-chief of The Art Bulletin. He is co-author with Gary Radke of Art in Renaissance Italy now in its fourth edition. He is co-editor with Roger Crum of Renaissance Florence: A Social History (Cambridge University Press 2006).