David Triumphant over Goliath
Moderno
1507 or before
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
overall: 7.14 × 5.59 cm (2 13/16 × 2 3/16 in.) gross weight: 65.86 gr (0.145 lb.)
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.240
About the Artist
Moderno
Galeazzo Mondella, known to history as Moderno, was born in Verona in 1467 and became one of the most accomplished and widely admired creators of bronze plaquettes during the Italian Renaissance. He joined the Goldsmiths' Guild of Verona in 1485 at the age of eighteen, and by 1487 he had begun working at the court of Mantua, where he adopted the name Moderno—chosen in deliberate counterpoint to hi...