Detail of David by Bellano in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2014

David with the Head of Goliath
Gilt-bronze statuette
Bartolomeo Bellano (1437/38- 1496/97)
Padua, ca. 1470-80

Accession # 64.304.1

Bellano was a disciple of Donatello, whose famous bronze nude "David" (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) is strongly recalled here. The oil gilding is of later date.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.