Why Donatello’s famoly androgyno sculpture of “David” should be tepreted as a reflectn of gay culture Renaissance Florence." data-reactroot="
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(A mockg name aimed at Bazzi’s homosexualy that Bazzi later began to embrace) was a pater of the Italian renaissance, born Savoy, Italy. This work particular hosts a homosocial event of mic and s nnectns to love, as signified by the cupid on the left si of the patg.
Donatello was one of the first morn artists to be known as gay Florence, a cy where homosexualy was proment among artists and patrons alike, albe, still owned upon by certa sectors (namely, the church. ) Donatello’s stud was a homosocial environment where which, he chose apprentic om his standards of bety rather than skill.
The symbolism the piece also rells an early homoerotic alln to the eagle of Juper David’s feathered helmet-tail.