Great Art Ep.6: David, Bandini Pietà and Rondanini Pietà (Michelangelo) | NTD Arts & Culture

The Statue of David
Strength, determination, and righteous faith - the image of
Michelangelo's "David" has eclipsed all other Davids in its compelling
depiction. It looms not just with power but with grace, and revival, as
Professor Rosand explores. As the story goes, the very block of marble
from which David was carved was a challenge. Where others saw only a
misshapen, difficult piece of stone to work with, Michelangelo could
already see the figure residing within it. 

Bandini Pietà and Rondanini Pietà
Michelangelo worked on more than one pieta in his lifetime. Later in
life, grappling with questions of salvation and faith, he begins on a
very different pieta that is in part self portrait.  Professor Rosand
explains what the great sculptor attempted - before he abandoned the
work, and began yet another pieta. He spends the last two decades of his
life dedicated to the body of Christ, and perhaps here in these last
works we can further understand what that faith meant to Michelangelo.

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