Gianlorenzo Bernini is the artist of the baroque century who created Bernini's David. Gianlorenzo Bernini's work is known throughout the world and has amazed the art world; he is a respected artist among his peers. Bernini is well known for his David, a sophisticated, yet very significant and biblical work of art. David was Bernini's fourth and last life-size sculpture for Cardinal Borghese. Gianlorenzo Bernini created three statues for Cardinal Scipione Borghese. The sculptures were to be placed in front of the Villa Borghese outside Porta Pinciana in Rome and, soon after completion, two of the statues were placed in the ground floor rooms of the villa, the David and the Apollo and Daphne. Joy Kenseth stated in her article Bernini's Borghese Sculptures: "Bernini's Borghese statues show many interesting views and are richly worked from almost every angle, they also stated that each sculpture has a meaning for them, a dominant face and was meant to be seen from, a principal aspect” (Kenseth 192). What Kenseth conveyed to readers was that Bernini's David had movement because of his position, and his facial expression showed strength, so that the subject matter had meaning. , dominance. Bernini had used the Renaissance style, but revealing to the viewer that it comes from the Baroque era. Originally the source was biblical, as stated by Scribner, "not Greco-Roman, a vital injection of Old Testament virtues into the pagan pantheon of the cardinal" (Scribner 66). The first payment Bernini received for his David was in 1623, and in 1624 the phenomenal artist was paid for his pedestal. Kenseth states in his article: "According to Baldinucci, it was finished in seven months" (Kenseth). According to Scribner's book “Bernini's David comes from the ancestors of the Renaissance” (Scribner 66). But Bernini did not copy Donatello's work of David, either