Comparing David And David In Donatello's David

These two David’s sculptures might look very different from each other at the first glance, but if you study them close, they actually have many similarities.
One of Donatello’s best-known work portrays David after he defeated Goliath by striking him with a stone and cutting his head off with Goliath’s own sword. Donatello was the first artist that created a nude life-sized sculpture since antiquity. His bronze sculpture of David indicates that he completely mastered the classical tradition of art. Particularly his sculpture reflects the style of Polykleitos who was one of the best-known Greek sculptors of classical antiquity and one of his famous works of Doryphoros had a big influence on Donatello’s David. Donatello represents David as a