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19/08/2025

DAVID is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
The subject of the work is the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, which will allow David to behead him. Compared to earlier works on the same theme (notably the David of Michelangelo), the sculpture broke new ground in its implied movement and its psychological intensity.

Sculpture named: David
Sculptor: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680)
Nationality: Italian 🇮🇹
Known as: Sculptor, painter and architect
Important artworks (sculpture): David, Apollo and Daphne, The R**e of Proserpina, Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Sleeping Hermaphroditus
Movement style: Baroque
Patron: Cardinal Scipione Borghese
Created: ca. 1623 (24)
Movement style: Baroque
Materials and techniques: Marble
Dimensions: 1,700 mm
Location: Rome, Galleria Borghese, Italy 🇮🇹

The Galleria Borghese or Borghese Gallery is an art gallery in Rome, Italy, housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana. At the outset, the gallery building was integrated with its gardens, but nowadays the Villa Borghese gardens are considered a separate tourist attraction. The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese Collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (reign 1605–1621). The building was constructed by the architect Flaminio Ponzio, developing sketches by Scipione Borghese himself, who used it as a villa suburbana, a country villa at the edge of Rome.

10/08/2025

The statue was transported to Newfoundland in 1856, as recorded on December 4 in the diary of Bishop John Thomas Mullock: "Received safely from Rome, a beautiful statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in marble, by Strazza. The face is veiled, and the figure and features are all seen. It is a perfect gem of art". It was then kept at the Bishop's Palace next to the Catholic Cathedral in St. John's until 1862, when Bishop Mullock presented it to Mother Mary Magdalene O'Shaughnessy, the Superior of the Presentation Convent. The bust has since remained under the care of Presentation Sisters, in Cathedral Square, St. John's.

Artist: Giovanni Strazza (Italian 🇫🇷)
Year: Before 1856
Type: Carrara marble
Dimensions: 19 in
Location: Presentation Convent, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada 🇨🇦

Works by STRAZZA:
Strazza's best known work is The Veiled Virgin.
A replica (2005) of Strazza's L'Audace Righetto stands on the Janiculum Hill in Roma; the original (1851) is in the Palazzo Litta in Milano
Ishmael Abandoned in the Desert, a replica of which from 1850 is exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Milan.

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