Chapter 62: The Mystery of David
Hearing that Nie Guangyi said that he had opened the person so directly, Nie Tianqin was relieved.
He also remembers a little bit now, how he used to get along with his son.
As long as he, as a father, is no longer so cautious, it is still easy to distinguish what is serious and what is joking.
Moreover, the reason why Nie Guangyi has an opinion about Tongji is because of his misconduct 14 years ago.
It's not that I don't really like the school, or whatever.
Now that both father and son have released their suspicions, and they know that there is a capable person in the office who is a former student of Dad, it is impossible to subtract points from their resumes.
The father and son of the Nie family were lying on the bed and chatting, chatting about the years they had missed each other, and most of the chats were about some meaningless daily topics, and they chatted all night.
After all, the two fathers and daughters in the room next door had only been separated for a few days, and although there were endless conversations, Zong Ji still went back to his room to sleep after an hour.
Mengxinzhi finally adjusted the jet lag, and Zong Ji didn't want to make the jet lag out again because of his arrival.
As soon as Yumeshin fell asleep, he began to dream.
Her dreams are very healthy.
But in the first second of entering this dream, I was startled by the scale.
A man who wore a very close-fitting skirt.
The upper body is as thin as a cicada's wings, and the ribs are also distinct.
It's nothing, after all, it's a man's upper body.
The problem is that two points on the chest are specifically highlighted.
Although the two points on the man's chest are not visible, there is no problem.
The highlighted behavior is also a little weird.
This man has his left hand on his waist and his right hand holding a sword.
Stand there motionless.
Dream Heart's first reaction in the dream was to close his eyes in fright.
But only in the first reaction.
She quickly realized that she might have broken into the scene where Verrocchio had created the bronze statue of David.
The name Verrocchio may not be as familiar to many people.
If he was da Vinci's teacher, more people might know.
Further, revealing his identity as the person who has always asked da Vinci to draw eggs, more people will surely suddenly realize.
Verrocchio is not a familiar name, but he was not only a teacher of Leonardo da Vinci, but also of Botticelli and Perugino.
Perugino's words seem even more eye-catching, but it doesn't matter, this man is Raphael's teacher.
The three masters of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael.
Leonardo da Vinci was Verrocchio's apprentice.
Raphael was Verrocchio's apprentice grandson.
Two of the three are directly related to Verrocchio.
There's only one Michelangelo left, and it's okay with him, right?
I'm sorry, but Michelangelo wrote "David" under the influence of Verrocchio.
David is the shepherd boy of the Bible story, a valiant shepherd boy who resisted the attack of the giant Goliath and became the king of the Jews.
When people think of David, one of the world's top 10 sculptures comes to mind – arguably the most boastful unclothed man in the history of Western art.
This statue of David was so famous in later generations that many people did not notice that there are three particularly famous statues of David in the history of Western art.
Michelangelo's David is a marble statue, and the other two are bronze Davids.
Bronze statue of David, in addition to the dream of this statue of Leonardo da Vinci's teacher is creating.
There is another one, from Donatello.
Donatello's portrait of David and Michelangelo's heirloom have the exact same minimalist way of dressing – naked.
In such a comparison, although Dream Xinzhi's first reaction was that the scale of the creation scene in the dream was a bit large, the fact was that it had given her the greatest degree of dress friendliness.
In any case, Verrocchio's statue of David, no matter how close the upper body is, no matter how prominent it is, the lower body is covered by a "short skirt", which covers the place that should be covered.
Speaking of which, the fame of Verrocchio's David statue is not as doubtful.
In the history of Western art, there was a very interesting legend that Michelangelo's David statue was modeled by Leonardo da Vinci.
This argument is clearly untenable.
Not to mention that da Vinci and Michelangelo have always had a "king does not see the king" posture.
The mere fact that da Vinci was 23 years older than Michelangelo is enough to prove the falsification.
When Michelangelo began writing David, da Vinci was almost fifty years old, and he could not have been the prototype of the shaped, determined, muscular portrait of David full of young male hormones.
The reason why such a legend is left behind.
The first is that Michelangelo's David statue is too famous.
The second is that Western art historians do believe that Leonardo da Vinci once modeled for a statue of David.
Not Michelangelo's, but his mentor Verrocchio's.
When da Vinci was young, how good he was at singing is impossible to verify, and there was no gramophone in the Renaissance.
When Leonardo da Vinci was young, how handsome he was, many Western art historians would point to Verrocchio's bronze David statue.
In the Renaissance period, when the work was based on realism, if the model of the statue was really what da Vinci looked like when he was young, then Da Vinci was not only handsome, but also had a great figure.
Verrocchio's bronze statue of David, created in 1476, when Leonardo da Vinci was 24 years old.
It was just the age when da Vinci came out of school.
Verrocchio had an absolute preference for Leonardo da Vinci.
Leonardo da Vinci's fame in the world of painting has a great deal to do with the sacrifice of his painting career by his mentor Verrocchio.
Rewind the year to 1472.
That year, da Vinci was 20 years old, had been studying with Verrocchio for four or five years, and painted eggs so superbly that he could no longer be supernatural, and was listed on the list of members of the Florentine Painters' Guild, but only for that.
Soon after, his mentor Verrocchio received a commission from the Saville Church.
The commission was to create an oil painting on the theme of the baptism of Christ.
After accepting the commission, Verrocchio took it upon himself to paint a painting of the Baptism of Christ, but he only painted it to 95%.
In the center of the work is a baptized Jesus, with a pious face, his hands folded in a gesture of prayer.
John the Baptist on the right is holding a ladle of water and pouring it on Jesus' head.
At the top of the painting, God stretches out his arms and the dove glows golden.
There are two cherubs in the lower left, who are responsible for helping the baptized Jesus carry his clothes.
One angel is facing the viewer, the other is sideways, slightly facing away from the viewer, and has only one side face.
Verrocchio himself finished painting the cherub facing the viewer, and the last side angel was handed over to Leonardo da Vinci, who had not yet shown his amazing talent in the field of painting.
Leonardo da Vinci finished the painting in no time, and used the technique of perspective.
Verrocchio was stunned by da Vinci's drawing of this little angel with a side face.
Looking at his own 95%, it is not as good as the 5% that the apprentice added at the end.
Verrocchio's preference for da Vinci, at this moment, reached an extreme.
This painting master, who directly influenced the three masters of the Renaissance, directly announced the closure of the pen.
He believed that he had fulfilled his historical mission in the field of painting, and that no matter how much he painted, he could not catch up with his students.
Verrocchio's pen is not just talking, he really never picked up a paintbrush again in his life.
After the completion of The Baptism of Christ, Verrocchio left Florence for Venice to concentrate on sculpture.
The most famous of these is the bronze statue of David.
As a teacher, it's normal to stand up for your students.
But it is still a bit exaggerated to support himself to close the pen directly, and to say everywhere that his painting skills are overshadowed in front of the students.
At the time, many people believed that there was an improper relationship between Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci.
Yes, it's the special relationship between men and men.
The question of Leonardo da Vinci's orientation has always been debated in the history of Western art.
In fact, the biggest stain on da Vinci's life was being charged with the crime of chicken.
This stain occurred in 1476, the year the bronze David was created.
This incident is not groundless and chasing after the wind, but is recorded in historical materials.
Historical sources are from court records dating back to 1476.
Leonardo da Vinci and three other young men were charged with the crime of "jian", or homosexuality.
In the Renaissance era, probably only the rulers of the Chinese mainland were the most tolerant of homosexuality.
This case, although it was finally closed due to insufficient evidence, had a great impact on Leonardo da Vinci.
He began to protect his privacy to a great extent.
He writes with his left hand, and all of them are mirror text, which is encrypted for most people.
Leonardo da Vinci's sexuality has always been a mystery in Western art history.
Leonardo da Vinci never married and left no children, which became the basis for many people to identify his sexual orientation.
Dream Heart doesn't really care much about this problem.
In her opinion, an all-round genius like Leonardo da Vinci is not oriented at all.
Whether da Vinci liked men or women, it didn't affect him that he was a great scientist and artist.
Yume's eyes have seen research on this, but he has never really paid attention to it.
I never thought that I would encounter the creation site of the bronze David statue of Verrocchio in a dream.
From the perspective of thinking about it day and dreaming at night, it is very likely that before going to bed, he had just witnessed the whole process of someone and his own father coming out of the closet.
(End of chapter)