meaning of aurora

Chapter 64 The Mystery of David
Hearing that Nie Guangyi directly said to let him go, Nie Tianqin felt relieved.

Now he also recalled a little bit, the feeling of getting along with his son before.

As long as he, as a father, is no longer so cautious, it is still easy to tell what is serious and what is joking.

Furthermore, the reason why Nie Guangyi has a problem with Tongji is because of his inappropriate behavior 14 years ago.

Not really disliking the school, or anything.

Now that the father and son have settled their suspicions, and knowing that there is a capable person in the firm who is a former student of his father, it is impossible to reduce points on his resume no matter what.

The Nie family father and son lay on the bed and chatted about the years they had missed each other. Most of the chats were about meaningless everyday topics, and they chatted all night long.

After all, the father and daughter in the Mengxin room next door had only been separated for a few days, and although they still had endless conversations, Zong Ji went back to his room to sleep after an hour.

Meng Xinzhi managed to adjust the jet lag, and Zongji didn't want to make it happen again because of his arrival.

As soon as Meng Xinzhi fell asleep, she began to dream.

Her dreams are very healthy.

But in the first second of entering this dream, he was taken aback by the scale.

A man, wearing a very close-fitting dress.

The upper body is as thin as a cicada's wings, and the ribs are well defined.

This is nothing at all, after all, it is the upper body of a man.

The problem is that the two points on the chest are specifically highlighted.

Although the two points on the man's chest, it doesn't matter whether you can see them or not.

The highlighted behavior is a bit weird.

This man, with his left hand on his hip, holds a sword in his right.

Stand there motionless.

Meng Xinzhi's first reaction in the dream was to close her eyes in fright.

But only for first responders.

She quickly realized that she might have intruded on Verrocchio's creation of the bronze David.

The name Verrocchio may not be as recognizable to many people.

If his identity as Da Vinci's teacher is revealed, more people may know about it.

Going a step further, revealing that he is the person who has been letting Da Vinci paint eggs, and more people will surely be enlightened.

Verrocchio is not a well-known name to the general public, but he was not only the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci, but also the teacher of Botticelli and Perugino.

The four words Perugino seem even more unfamiliar, but it doesn't matter, this person is Raphael's teacher.

The three masters after the Renaissance, Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.

Da Vinci was Verrocchio's apprentice.

Raphael was the grandson of Verrocchio.

Two of the three masters are directly related to Verrocchio.

There is only one Michelangelo left, so it has nothing to do with him, right?
Sorry, Michelangelo created "David" under the influence of Verrocchio.

David is the shepherd boy in the Bible story. This shepherd boy was so brave that he blocked the attack of the giant Goliath. He was deeply loved and became the king of the Jews.

When it comes to the statue of David, people will first think of one of Michelangelo's top ten sculptures in the world - the most boastful unclothed male in the history of Western art.

This statue of David was so famous in later generations that many people did not notice that there are three particularly famous statues of David in the history of Western art.

Michelangelo's David is a marble statue, and the other two are bronze Davids.

The bronze statue of David, except for the one that Da Vinci's teacher was creating in Mengxinzhi's dream.

There is another one, by Donatello.

Donatello's David has exactly the same minimalist dressing style as Michelangelo's handed down work-naked.

In such a comparison, although Meng Xinzhi's first reaction was that the scale of the creative scene in the dream was a bit large, the fact is that she has been given the greatest degree of clothing friendliness.

Anyway, in Verrocchio's David statue, no matter how close the upper body is and how prominent it is, the lower body is covered by a "short skirt", which tightly covers the place that should be covered.

Speaking of which, Verrocchio's reputation as a statue of David is not much in doubt.

In the history of Western art, there used to be a very interesting legend that Michelangelo's David statue was found by Leonardo da Vinci as a model.

This argument is obviously untenable.

Not to mention that Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo have always had a posture of "the king does not see the king".

The mere fact that Da Vinci was 23 years older than Michelangelo is enough to disprove it.

When Michelangelo began to create "David", Leonardo da Vinci was almost 50 years old, and he couldn't be the prototype of the David statue full of young male hormones with a healthy body, firm expression, and full muscles.

The reason why such legends are left behind.

First of all, Michelangelo's David is too famous.

The second is that Western art historians do believe that da Vinci once served as a model for the statue of David.

Not Michelangelo's, but his mentor Verrocchio's.

How much Leonardo da Vinci could sing when he was young is unknown. There was no phonograph in the Renaissance.

How handsome Leonardo da Vinci was when he was young. Many Western art historians would point their swords at Verrocchio's bronze statue of David.

In the renaissance period when realism was the top priority in works, if the model of the statue really looked like Da Vinci when he was young, then Da Vinci would not only be handsome, but also have a strong figure.

Verrocchio's bronze statue of David, created in 1476, when Leonardo da Vinci was 24 years old.

It just happened to be the age when Da Vinci became a teacher.

Verrocchio had an absolute preference for Leonardo da Vinci.

Da Vinci's rise to fame in the painting world has a great relationship with his mentor Verrocchio's dedication to his painting career.

Go back in time to 1472.

That year, Leonardo Da Vinci was 20 years old. He had studied with Verrocchio for four or five years. He painted eggs so superbly that he couldn't be more superb. He was listed on the list of members of the Florentine Painters Guild. But it's just included.

Soon after, his mentor Verrocchio received a commission from the Savile Church.

The content of the commission was to create an oil painting with the theme of Christ's baptism.

After accepting the commission, Verrocchio painted a piece of "The Baptism of Christ" by himself, but he only painted 95% of it.

In the center of this work is Jesus being baptized, with a pious face and folded hands in a gesture of prayer.

John the Baptist on the right holds a ladle of river water and pours it on Jesus' head.

At the top of the painting, God stretches out his arms and a dove shines golden.

There are two little angels on the lower left, responsible for helping the baptized Jesus to take clothes.

One angel is facing the viewer, the other is sideways, somewhat turned away from the viewer, and has only one profile.

Verrocchio painted the little angel facing the viewer himself, and the last side-faced angel was handed over to Leonardo da Vinci, who had not yet shown his amazing talent in the field of painting.

Da Vinci finished the painting quickly and used the technique of perspective.

Verrocchio was stunned by the side-faced cherub painted by Leonardo da Vinci.

Looking at the 95% of my own, it is not as good as the last 5% added by the apprentice.

Verrocchio's preference for Da Vinci, at this moment, reached the extreme.

The painting master who directly influenced the three masters of the Renaissance directly announced the closure of his pen.

He thought that he had completed his historical mission in the field of painting, and no matter how much he painted, he could not keep up with his students.

Verrocchio's closure of the pen is not just talk, he really never picked up a paintbrush in his whole life.

After the completion of "The Baptism of Christ", Verrocchio left Florence and went to Venice to concentrate on creating sculptures.

The most famous of these is the bronze statue of David.

As a teacher, it is normal to stand up for your students.

However, it still makes people feel a bit exaggerated to stand up to the fact that he directly seals the pen, and goes around saying that his painting skills are so eclipsed in front of the students that they are not worth mentioning at all.

At that time, many people believed that there was an improper relationship between Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci.

Yes, it is the special relationship between men and men.

Da Vinci's orientation has been debated endlessly in the history of Western art.

In fact, the biggest stain in Da Vinci's life was being accused of chicken (jian).

The stain occurred in the year the bronze David was created - 1476.

This matter is not groundless and speculative, but has historical records.

The source comes from court records dated 1476.

Da Vinci and three other young men were charged with ji (jian), or homosexuality.

In the era of the Renaissance, probably only the rulers of the Chinese mainland were the most tolerant of homosexuality.

Although this case was finally settled due to insufficient evidence, it had a great impact on Da Vinci.

He began to protect his privacy to a great extent.

He writes with his left hand, and all of his writing is mirrored text, which is considered encrypted for most people.

Da Vinci's sexual orientation has always been a mystery in the history of Western art.

Da Vinci was never married and left no children, which has become the basis for many people to identify his sexual orientation.

Meng Xinzhi didn't really care much about this question.

In her view, it is not a problem at all for an all-round genius like Da Vinci to be orientated or not.

Whether da Vinci likes men or women does not affect his being a great scientist and artist.

Meng Xinzhi has seen research in this area, but has never really paid attention to it.

I never thought that I would meet Verrocchio's bronze statue of David in a dream.

From the perspective of thinking day by day and dreaming at night, it is most likely because before going to sleep, he just witnessed the whole process of someone coming out with his own father successfully.

(End of this chapter)