She’s living in his head rent free | Testone (2016) by Andrea Salvatori #art #sculpture #artwork

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Andrea Salvatori’s Testone (2016) reimagines Michelangelo’s David in a hauntingly introspective way. The head of David lies on the ground, monumental yet strangely lifeless, its classical perfection hollowed out. Inside the emptied skull sits a small, delicate woman, curled in quiet contemplation. The work’s title, Testone, meaning “Stubborn”, plays on both the literal “big head” and the figurative hardness of mind, suggesting pride, ego, and the weight of human flaw.

If we recall the biblical story of David and Bathsheba, the woman within may be Bathsheba herself. The figure who stirred David’s desire to such extremes that he arranged her husband’s death. Salvatori’s sculpture turns that act of lust and moral collapse inward. Bathsheba now resides in the hollow of David’s mind, a symbol of guilt and consequence, the silent echo of what his stubbornness has cost him.