This makes me realise that I really am curious about the statue. The video hints that the statue revolutionised the art form, and that leaves me wondering, what do they mean by that? What did michaelangelo do that was SO different with this statue? What did he figure out?

Hmmm....

oh also *bravo

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I remember reading that the model for David was his Michelangelo's partner and lover.

djsunkid:
I believe the big difference was perspective. From the ground you don't notice odd things like the fact David's hands are disproportionately huge.

I saw this in the Louvre. Very nice sculpture.

This is Most Definitely SFW and any worker that tells you otherwise has such reduced mental capacities that they shouldn't be operating a computer anyway (or leaving the asylum for that matter). Michelangelo's David is an amazing and inspiring work of art that needs to be beheld in person to appreciate the grandeur and scale of its accomplishment. Upvote.

I assure you, the David is in Florence, not Paris. You did not see it in the Louvre.

>> ^djsunkid:
This makes me realise that I really am curious about the statue. The video hints that the statue revolutionised the art form, and that leaves me wondering, what do they mean by that? What did michaelangelo do that was SO different with this statue? What did he figure out?
Hmmm....


Before Michelangelo, David is usually depicted after his battle with Goliath, usually standing on the beast's severed head. Michelangelo depicts David not in victory, but at a moment prefiguring that victory: in the instant between conscious choice and conscious action, the moment when an individual makes a choice--and commits to act on that choice. Michelangelo sculpted David not as a triumphant victor, but as a thinking, resolute being -- the preconditions for victory.