{"id":3023,"date":"2019-09-05T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T14:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/david-flees-from-the-palace\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:12:11","slug":"david-flees-from-the-palace","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/david-flees-from-the-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical episode scene (David flees from the palace)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gutenslider-vebkovi9t\" class=\"wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslider gs-frontend content-change alignnone adaptive-height arrow-style-1 arrow-position-sides arrow-mb-none arrows-lg arrows-md arrows-sm dot-style-1 dots-lg dots-md dots-sm dot-position-bottom is-position-center-center mb-none lg-zoom-icon wrap-auto-height\" data-parallax-direction=\"down\" data-parallax-amount=\"1.3\" data-lg-transition=\"lg-slide\" data-hash=\"\" ><div class=\"eedee-swiper-outer\" style=\"--gutenslider-min-height: 50vh;--gutenslider-arrow-size: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-dot-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-padding-y-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-bg-image: url();--gutenslider-min-height-md: 50vh;--gutenslider-min-height-sm: 50vh;--gutenslider-padding-x: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-padding-y: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-md: 30px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-sm: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size-md: 25px;--gutenslider-dot-size-sm: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-hover-color: #eeeeee;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-hover-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-md: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-spacing: 0px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-margin-x: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-divider-top: 60px;--gutenslider-divider-bottom: 60px;--gutenslider-lightgallery-bg: #ffffff;--gutenslider-lightgallery-font: #000000;--gs-first-pos: 50% 50%;--gs-gap-vertical: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );--gs-gap-horizontal: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );\"><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-top\" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper\" data-settings='{\"autoplay\":{\"delay\":3000,\"pauseOnMouseEnter\":true,\"disableOnInteraction\":false},\"speed\":700,\"direction\":\"horizontal\",\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"loop\":true,\"centeredSlides\":true,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"effect\":\"slide\",\"coverflowEffect\":{\"rotate\":30,\"slideShadows\":false,\"depth\":100,\"stretch\":50,\"modifier\":1},\"fadeEffect\":{\"crossFade\":true},\"zoom\":\"\",\"navigation\":{\"nextEl\":\"#gutenslider-vebkovi9t .eedee-gutenslider-next\",\"prevEl\":\"#gutenslider-vebkovi9t .eedee-gutenslider-prev\"},\"pagination\":{\"type\":\"bullets\",\"clickable\":true,\"dynamicBullets\":false,\"el\":\"#gutenslider-vebkovi9t .eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"},\"pauseOnHover\":\"1\",\"watchSlidesProgress\":true,\"watchSlidesVisibility\":true,\"settingsMd\":{\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"settingsLg\":{\"autoHeight\":\"1\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"hasLg\":true,\"hasLgCounter\":true,\"isFullScreen\":false,\"arrowsFollowMouse\":false,\"lgTitle\":\"none\",\"lgCaption\":\"none\",\"lgThumbnails\":true,\"lgZoomEnabled\":false,\"keyboard\":{\"keyboard\":{\"enabled\":true,\"onlyInViewport\":true}},\"hashNavigation\":false,\"dividers\":false}'><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-center-center ed-bg-image\" style=\"--ed-vw:300;--ed-vh:224;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div bg-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" class=\"wp-image-6197\" src=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/d364b-con-cornice-copia-1024x763.jpg\" alt=\"Francesco Conti\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit: cover; 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The more well-known and recognizable episode is the one in which the jealous sovereign throws a spear at young David, a theme also approached by Guercino in a painting that is now at Palazzo Barberini\u2019s Galleria Nazionale d\u2019Arte Antica; on the other hand, the subject of the second canvas is more uncertain, probably based on the subsequent escape of David \u2013 recognizable in the first painting by the zither and in the second one by the big sword previously taken from Goliath \u2013 from the royal palace.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The painter behind the vibrant chromaticism and the cursive and effortless style of these two depictions based on the Old Testament is one of the protagonists of the eighteenth<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">century in Florence, Francesco Conti. The artist, supported for his entire life by the sumptuously rich marquis Riccardi, began his training with an old local glory, Simone Pignoni, and later finished his studies in Rome, between 1699 and 1705. Once back in Florence, the artist worked on paintings of great importance for local churches, such as the <i>Crucifixion <\/i>(1709)<i>,<\/i> now in San Lorenzo, and the <i>Adoration of the Magi <\/i>(1715) for the Monastero Nuovo, now in Montedomini; he would even eventually receive significant commissions by Anna Maria Luisa de\u2019 Medici, the Electress of the Palatine, sister of the Grand Duke, such as the <i>The washing of the feet <\/i>(1729), for the Villa la Quiete. In his later years, he dedicated most of his activity to teaching at the Uffizi\u2019s Pubblica Scuola del Disegno, an institution connected to the Galleries of the gran-ducal works.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Within the stylistic path of the Florentine painter, an arc that starts with the austerity of the first works influenced by Trevisani at the beginning of the eighteenth century and ends with the Rococo evanescence of the fourth decade, these two canvases, with an original subject for the artist, were probably made during an intermediate stage, around 1720. 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