Comparing Michelangelo And Bernini's David

Michelangelo’s sculpture, David, was created in the sixteen century during the high renaissance period. He was both a sculptor and a painter when he returned to Florence in 1501. Although he had a strong view of classical art he was interested in breaking the rules of proportion for an overall more powerful sculpture. Another sculpture, David, was created by Bernini in the seventeen century during the Italian Baroque period. Bernini was an Italian sculptor as well as an architect and was mainly well known as an architect until he created his David sculpture. Bernini focuses more on movement and action through his sculpture which was different from Michelangelo and Donatello’s. The history of these two sculptures are important because Michelangelo’s

Their strength shows how they are ready for battle as wells their face. While looking at their face you can see an intense look. Although Michelangelo’s David looks slightly calmer then Bernini’s David, they both show seriousness. It was important that they used detail in the faces to show the viewers more of a story when they admire them. While looking at both of the sculptures I immediately looked at their faces. Both of these sculptures are made out of marble which was very popular in sculpting during the sixteen and seventeen century. Marble was used to create three-dimensional sculptures and required very detailed work. Both Michelangelo’s and Bernini’s sculptures show much detail throughout their entire body. The details in these sculptures stands out tremendously and if you really focus in closely, you can see how both Michelangelo and Bernini used flat, rugged, and small tools in some areas to really show that

David was well represented by Michelangelo as a heroic classical nudity. This differers from Bernini’s David, who’s sculpture was not even six feet tall and was very well covered, not completely nude. Instead of classical art, Bernini showed a more dramatic and theatrical. He shows this sense of direction of his statue moving through spaced time. As you can see when looking at Bernini’s David statue, his entire body is twisted, this kind of movement is known as torsion. Torsion was a well known and used technique during the Italian Baroque period. With the torsion of his body, Bernini’s David shows him more in action with a sense of movement. His facial expression as well as body moment allows viewers to see how dramatic and emotional this sculpture really is. This differs from Michelangelo’s sculpture where he is standing in a more contrapposto stance. Contrapposto is a stance widely used during the high renaissance period where you lean more onto one foot when you stand. As you can see in Michelangelo’s sculpture, he is leaning onto his right foot expressing this contrappasto