Great Art Explained — Season 1, Episode 3: Michelangelo's David
Documentary • 15 min • 5 seasons, 39 episodes
Episode synopsis
Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a poet and an engineer. An outsider touched by genius. His statue of David, the most famous statue in the world, personifies the aesthetics of High Renaissance art, the politics of Renaissance Florence, and the technical virtuosity of Greek sculpture. James Payne looks at the story of Michelangelo’s David, and discovers it is anything but the story of a teenage boy king who slew Goliath.
About Great Art Explained
Great Art Explained is a video series that focuses on one piece of art per episode, breaking it down, using clear and concise language free of 'art-speak'.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci (short version)
- E2Picasso’s Guernica
- E4The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault
- E5Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas"
- E6The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
- E7Artemisia Gentileschi
- E8Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
- E9Monet's Water Lilies
- E10Mark Rothko's Seagram Murals
- E11The Thinker by Rodin