cosimo de'medici sculptured a statue of the biblical hero david.
cosimo de'medici sculptured a statue of the biblical hero david.
who sculptured a statue of the biblical hero david?
cosimo de'medici
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the rediscovery of classical culture in the renaissance restored the nude to art. donatello made two statues of the biblical hero david, a symbol for the republic of florence: his first (in marble, 1408–1409) shows a clothed figure, but his second, probably of the 1440s, is the first freestanding statue of a nude since antiquity, several decades before michelangelo's massive "david" (1501–04). nudes in michelangelo's sistine chapel ceiling reestablished a tradition of male nudes in depictions of biblical stories; the subject of the martyrdom of the near-naked saint sebastian had already become highly popular. the monumental female nude returned to western art in 1486 with "the birth of venus" by sandro botticelli for the medici family, who also owned the classical venus de' medici, whose pose botticelli adapted.
nude (art)