2021/11/01 david and goliath
David and Goliath, 1555 Riccialelli Collection of the Louvre in Paris
David and Goliath, 1555 Riccialelli is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris
The painting is based on the << Bible >>, which can be viewed on both sides and is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris. The painting depicts David knocking down the giant Goliath of Philistines with a slingshot and stones, and drawing out his sheath and about to cut off his head.
The bible < Samuel > chapter 17 describes this story:
17:1 The Philistines gathered their armies to fight, gathered in Saultius, and camped in Ephesian mercy between Sogo and Assica.
17:2 Saul and the Israelites also gathered and set up camp in the Valley of Elek, and set up a line to fight the Philistines.
17:4 Out of the camp of Philistine came a man of war, named Goliath, a Gathian, six cubits and one tiger;
17:5 Wear a bronze helmet and armor, with an armor weight of five thousand shekels, and a copper knee pad on the legs, and a bronze halberd between the shoulders;
17:7 The shaft of the gun is as thick as a weave, and the iron tip weighs six hundred shekels. There was a man with a shield walking in front of him.
17:10 Goliath stood before the Israelite army and cried, "I curse the army of israel today. You called a man out and fought with me. When Saul and the people of Israel heard these words of the Philistines, they were horrified and terrified.
17:12 David was the son of Jesse of Ephraim, Judah. By the time Saul was, Jesse was old.
17:13 Jesse's three eldest sons followed Saul on his expedition. The three sons of the expedition: the eldest son was named Eliab, the second son was named Abinadas, the third son was named Sharma, and David was the eighth son, the youngest.
17:15 David sometimes left Saul and returned to Bethlehem to herd his father's sheep.
17:16 The Philistines came out and stood in the morning and evening, and so on for forty days.
17:17 One day Jesse said to his son David, "Take a tassel and ten loaves of Bread that Iphas have baked, and deliver them quickly to the camp and give them to your brothers; and take these ten pieces of milk cake and give them to their centurion, and ask your brothers for a letter." ”
17:20 David arose in the morning, entrusted the sheep to a caretaker, and went with food as his father had commanded. When they arrived at the heavy camp, the soldiers had just come out of the battlefield and shouted for battle.
17:22 David left the food he had brought with him at the hands of the object keepers, ran to the battlefield, and asked his brothers for safety.
17:25 The Israelites said to one another, "Have you seen this man who has come?" He came up to curse the Israelites. If anyone could kill him, the king would reward him with great wealth, give him his daughter as his wife, and spare his father's family from grain and ran errands among the Israelites. ”
17:32 David said to Saul, "No one need be frightened by the Philistines. Your servants are going to fight the Naphraims.
17:37 David also said, "The LORD has delivered me from the claws of lions and bears, and will deliver me from the hands of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "You can go!" The LORD will be with you. ”
17:40 He took the rod in his hand, and in the stream he chose five smooth stones and put them in a bag, which was the sac of the shepherd's belt; and with the string of the stone in his hand, he went to meet the Philistines. Gradually, the Philistines also greeted David, and the one with the shield walked ahead.
17:42 The Philistines watched and saw David, and despised him, for he was young, red in color, and beautiful in appearance.
17:45 David said to the Philistines, "You have come to attack me by a sword and a brass, and I have come to attack you in the name of the Lord of all nations, the God whom you have wrathfully commanded the army of Israel."
17:46 Today the Lord will deliver you into my hands. I will kill you and behead you, and I will eat the corpses of the Philistine soldiers to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, so that all the people of the world will know that there is God in Israel;
17:47 And he made it known to the multitude that the Lord made man victorious, not with a sword or a gun, for the victory or defeat of the battle was all about the Lord. He will deliver you into our hands. ”
17:48 The Philistines got up and greeted David. David hurried to meet the Philistines and ran to the battlefield.
17:49 David took a stone from his sac with his hand, threw it with a string, and hit the Philistine's forehead, and when the stone entered his forehead, he fell to his knees and fell to the ground. Thus David threw the stone with the strings of the machine, defeated the Philistines, and killed him; David did not have a knife in his hand.
17:51 David ran, stood beside the Philistine, pulled his knife out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head. When the Philistines saw that their warrior was dead, they fled.
Scottsdale Mint's 2-ounce silver fiat currency
The story of the young David defeating the giant Goliath with only stones and strings was engraved on the Scottsdale Mint's 2-ounce silver fiat currency, with a limited circulation of 1499 coins.
Author: Daniele Riccialelli
(Daniele Ricciarelli, 1509-1566, also known as daniele da volterra)
Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor. He once joined the painters' guild, and the famous painter Michelangelo was one of the most influential and accomplished painters in the Italian Renaissance painting world.
Born in Volterra (Tuscany). As a child, he apprenticed in the studio of the Siena master and painter Sodoma and learned painting techniques. In 1535, he went to Rome to study with the famous painter Perin del Vaga, and together he completed the creation and decoration of the frescoes, gradually forming his own style characteristics and having certain artistic achievements. Valued by Paul III, he has been engaged in the painting of frescoes and the creation of some works at the Royal Society of Arts. Paul III continued to make ends meet on sculptures after his death.
Masterpiece: Sculpture "Michelangelo. Bonaroteti busts, "the massacre of the innocents", etc.