Donatello's bronze David and Judith as Metaphors of Medici rule in Florence.(Bibliography)
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 3/1/2001
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Author: McHam, Sarah Blake
For all the individual analyses of Donatello's bronze David and Judith and Holofernes, these sculptures have rarely been considered jointly, despite the fact that they were displayed in coordinated outdoor spaces of the Medici Palace for about thirty years. I argue here that their iconography was meant to evoke republican themes, well known to the Florentine elite, that the Medici aimed to embrace and co-opt. (1) The associated meanings of the David and the Judith and Holofernes were ...
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