With his calm and mild nature, which has the tone of a compound classicism, Spadarino proposes an unconventional figure of David. The biblical youth here assumes the guise of a classical hero, a pensive and absorbed Apollo. From his fight with the giant Goliath, the artist captures the most intimate and psychological dimension, but all the attention of the observer is concentrated on the form of the members. The young body is flooded with light, which celebrates the harmonious, strong forms, while the arm rests on the giant’s horrendous severed head, whose hair seems almost to caress it in a last gesture of mercy.