# David with the Head of Goliath

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BELLANO, Bartolommeo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Bronze with oil gilding of later date, height 29 cm

## Commentary

Bartolommeo Bellano executed a number of small metal figures for Pope Paul II and for others, and he has been recognized as one of the earliest Italian sculptors to make a speciality of bronze statuettes. The present work is one of Bellano&#39;s masterpieces in bronze. Its debt to &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/d/donatell/1\_early/david/2david1.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/d/donatell/1\_early/david/2david1.html&#34;&gt;Donatello&#39;s David&lt;/a&gt; is reflected in the hero&#39;s pose with hip swung out and one arm akimbo and the gigantic head of Goliath at his feet. A number of later versions testify to the continuing esteem in which this sculpture was held well into the sixteenth century.

## Related artworks

- [David with the Head of Goliath \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/david-with-the-head-of-goliath-detail-r8e12a61d1c0ebf>)
- [David with the Head of Goliath](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/david-with-the-head-of-goliath-rdb88387d9b99d6>)
- [Education of Cupid in Vulcan&#39;s Forge](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/education-of-cupid-in-vulcans-forge-r7dd84acd702385>)
- [Europa and the Bull](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/europa-and-the-bull-rd4eaeae4be9ecc>)
- [Grazing Ox](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/grazing-ox-rcb0b5a3391fb30>)
- [Lamentation over the Dead Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/lamentation-over-the-dead-christ-r9ddb6c27b2b901>)
- [Lamentation over the Dead Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/lamentation-over-the-dead-christ-rcf4dc4de6a7871>)
- [Monument to Pietro Roccabonella \(fragment\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/monument-to-pietro-roccabonella-fragment-r1a5982d69dfdb0>)
- [Monument to Pietro Roccabonella \(fragment\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/monument-to-pietro-roccabonella-fragment-r1ce850d44c6949>)
- [Samson Destroying the Temple of the Philistines](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/samson-destroying-the-temple-of-the-philistines-r77800a76de2202>)
- [Tabernacle-reliquary](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/tabernacle-reliquary-r09618434353170>)
- [The Dead Christ with Two Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bellano-bartolommeo-r6266f5c18bcb97-r6266f5c18bcb97/the-dead-christ-with-two-angels-r170cdc875b9dcd>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)