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Donatello’S David: The Putti Speak, Sally A. Struthers Ph.D.
Donatello’S David: The Putti Speak, Sally A. Struthers Ph.D.
Sally A. Struthers, Ph.D.
As the first approaching life-sized, freestanding, sensuous, bronze nude since Antiquity, Donatello’s bronze David is a critical monument of the Italian Renaissance. It is also one of the most enigmatic. David is nude, but not completely unclothed, wearing a feminine-looking hat and knee-high boots. David holds a rock and a sword, while standing suggestively, on the head of Goliath. He stands in a relaxed contrapposto stance. His left hand, held to his hip, holds a stone. His right hand is resting on an oversized sword, which points downward to the helmet of Goliath, between the feet of David. As Zuraw …
The Seven Deadly Sins Of Hieronymus Bosch, Sally A. Struthers Ph.D.
The Seven Deadly Sins Of Hieronymus Bosch, Sally A. Struthers Ph.D.
Sally A. Struthers, Ph.D.
Some have tried to explain the iconography of Bosch’s works through alchemy, astrology, medicine and the Adamites. Bosch’s work is rich, and seems to come from a number of sources, but he always drew from traditional Christian themes. The sinfulness of mankind is a major theme in Bosch’s oeuvre, and is bound up with the late Medieval theme of the punishments of the damned at the Last Judgment. The theme of the seven deadly sins pervades every surviving painting by Hieronymus Bosch.