The Representational Michelangelo's David

The purpose of the representational Michelangelo piece “David” is to convey to the viewer the emotions of David, the biblical hero king, shortly after he had accepted Goliaths challenge but just before the actual fight. The tense neck muscles, the bulging veins, the intense stare, the “shrinkage” are all there to convey the sense of nervousness and anxiety he feels before the fight. The theme of this work is Religious, as it depicts the biblical patriarch David shortly before one of the most famous battle scenes from the bible. I reached these conclusions based on the reading of the body language, the slight contrapposto of the shoulders, the sideways glance, as these show not a man who is prepared to fight, but one who is scared to die. The