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- Title
<em>Donatello's bronze</em> David <em>and the Palazzo Medici courtyard</em>.
- Authors
Ames-Lewis, Francis
- Abstract
The article focuses on Donato de'Bardi detto Donatello's bronze statute "David" and the Pallazo Medici courtyard, which have been the subject of much intrigue and hypotheses. It discusses whether the David was indeed commissioned to stand in the Palazzo Medici courtyard based upon the views of intellectuals like John Pope-Hennessy and Agnese Parronchi. The aim is to consider how the David would have been seen in the palace courtyard, and to suggest some aspects of the imagery of the bronze and its context which the patron and his intellectual peers may have wished to stimulate in the observer's mind.
- Subjects
RENAISSANCE art; STATUES; ITALIAN arts; ITALIAN bronze sculpture; ART criticism; POPE-Hennessy, John; PARRONCHI, Agnese
- Publication
Renaissance Studies, 1989, Vol 3, Issue 3, p235
- ISSN
0269-1213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1477-4658.1989.tb00186.x