David (Donatello)

David
Donatello, David, bronze, 1435–40, Florence, Bargello, detail
Artist	Donatello
Year	1416 (marble) c. 1440s (bronze)
Subject	David
Dimensions	158 cm (62 in)
Location	Bargello

David is the title of two statues of the biblical hero by the Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello. They consist of an early work in marble of a clothed figure (1408–09), and a far more famous bronze figure that is nude except for helmet and boots, and dates to the 1440s or later. Both are now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence. The first was Donatello's most important commission up to that point, and had a religious context, placed on Florence Cathedral. The bronze remains his most famous work, and was made for a secular context, commissioned by the Medici family.