June 30, 2004
doryphoros?
Joni won't be finished tonight, there's just not enough hours in a day. Never mind, I have so many bloggable treasures waiting in line! Piffin was two when she was looking through an art history book. She found a picture she really liked and started to copy it, in deadly ernest. When she had finished drawing the head, she decided drawing the body was too hard for her, so she told me to do that. Now the challenge. I have searched all our books, and I can't find the picture. It may be Doryphoros, it may be Hermes, but everything I find either has arms, or legs in other directions, or little Dionysosses. And I remember quite clearly that Piffin DEMANDED I'd be accurate, she was striving for perfection like an ancient Greek. So which sculpture is this?
Are you serious? This man showing himself off in front of the mirror can only be David.
Saw it once in Florence on a crate-like wooden construction, which looked like it would break any moment under the weight of the statue. Surrounded by ordinary, mainly Italian tourists(I was lucky to have planned my vacation at the end of the season), clothed mostly in the little creative Benetton manner, and all of them, me included, not near the impressive build of this man David.
Food for poems.
Greetings from a sick Lex
(a virus, which causes an infection on the bronchia and gives me asthmatic symptoms.)
i am not sure if its David, thought his balls were smaller.
Posted by: Bart at July 1, 2004 06:34 AMDavid has really small balls. Lex might be right, but it doesn't explain why I didn't draw whole arms. The legs certainly look like David.
And get well soon, Lex!
Posted by: eliane at July 1, 2004 08:15 AMYes, I wondered about the arms. If it is not David, it must be a statue which copied it's position excactly.
Although, thinking about the arms, the right underarm should go up again. Maybe it's not David after all. Yeah positive, can't be David with his right arm this way.
Sorry for the misguidance and Greetings
Posted by: Lex van de Oudeweetering at July 1, 2004 08:53 AMNo, don't apologize. I just looked him up in our Janson's. The photo of David in there is taken from the exact right point of view, so it almost must be him. The arms are a mystery. Piffin thinks she remembers being very precise about what she wanted. But such early memories can't be very credible of course.
Posted by: eliane at July 1, 2004 09:18 AMDavid hing -van mijn 17 tot mijn 22 - in mijn nachtkastje zonder die streepkes op zijn benen. en, ergens was er iets aantrekkelijk charmant in zijn houding
Eigenlijk wil ik van jou enkel de naam weten van dienen outdoor? winkel in Toronto.
Hilde
There are fabulous photos of the newly cleaned David here: http://www.artdaily.com/galeria.asp?id=15#inicio
Posted by: Marja-Leena Rathje at July 1, 2004 08:16 PMWow, thanks, great photo's. Especially the one's from frog's eye view...
Posted by: eliane at July 1, 2004 08:27 PMToen Otger hier was stond de gerestaureerde David in de krant, we hebben hem samen zorgvuldig bekeken.
Posted by: erica at July 3, 2004 11:20 AM