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Episode 292 - Bernini's "David"

Episode 292 - Bernini's "David"

Rebuilding The Renaissance · Rocky Ruggiero

August 21, 202419m 43s

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Show Notes

Gian Lorenzo Bernini carved his statue of "David" in 1623 in only 7 months, interrupting his work working on the "Apollo and Daphne" to do so. His "David" shows the young shepherd boy in the act of casting the stone with an assortment of symbols surrounding him. Perhaps the most striking feature of the statue is the concentrated expression on its face which tradition maintains is a self-portrait of Bernini.