MARCHIORI, Giovanni
(b. 1696, Caviola d'Agordo, d. 1778, Treviso)

David

1744
Marble
San Rocco, Venice

This statue is placed, together with its pendant St Cecilia, beneath the organ in the church of San Rocco. Although these statues still exercises their right to indulge in elegant and sophisticated detail or to emphasize some virtuoso angle (Goliath's head, or the way hair is dressed and styled), they nevertheless seem full of foretastes of things to come: Canova and the Neo-classicism.