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Donatello & Michelangelo

thirty, fought a great number of battles (2 Samuel is filled with the numbers of men slain by David), united the people of Israel, established Jerusalem as their capital, was a musician, wrote some of the Psalms, and ruled over Israel for forty years. The most common of David's incarnations in art, however, was his role as giant-slayer which was held to be "a prefiguration of Christ's temptation in the desert, by the devil, and was used in a wider context to symbolize the victory of right over wrong" (Hall 203). Both Donatello and Michelangelo chose to represent this episode from his early life, but the two artists chose significantly different moments from the story and represented David as a different physical type.

In the Biblical account of the episode David was a young boy of Bethlehem who was forced to remain in the fields tending to the family's sheep while his brothers fought with the army against the Philistines. David was carrying food to his brothers when he came upon the standoff caused by the Israelites' fear of Goliath. David, ins

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Donatello & Michelangelo. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 01:04, March 27, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1693839.html