David

Verrocchio probably executed this statue for the Medici family between 1472 and 1475, a period when he made formal reconsiderations and elaborations of the marvelously unified and simple body of Donatello's work. Once again the sense of reality and the sense of form seem to separate, and in the obsession to make sculpture more real and alive, Verrocchio arrives at an analytical virtuosity in representing anatomy, at the congealing of the forms described in their every physical articulation.