Visual Arts and Film Studies:
To what extent is Michelangelo’s David a Republican sculpture?
Here are the sources –
Michael Hirst, Michelangelo in Florence: ‘David’ in 1503 and ‘Hercules’ in 1506 The Burlington Magazine, 142. 2000, 487-492. [JSTOR]
Saul Levine, The Location of Michelangelos David: The Meeting of January 25, 1504, The Art Bulletin, 56. 1974, 31-49. [JSTOR]
Michael Hirst, Michelangelo The Achievement of Fame, 1475-1534, New Haven and London, 2011, 42-52
Sarah Blake McHam, Public Sculpture in Renaissance Florence, in Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, ed. S. Blake McHam, Cambridge, 1998, 149-188.
Seymour, Charles, Jr. Michelangelo’s David: a search for identity (Mellon Studies in the Humanities), Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967 Vasari, Giorgio, Lives of the Artists (Penguin Books), Life of Michelangelo, pp. 325442.