Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Information about marble

Marble:

  • found at quarry then brought to pisa then florence
  • Hacked at twice by two different sculptures
  • Left in the rain
  • 11 years later Michelangelo was bon
  • 35 years after the block arriving to florence
  • tree trunk was designed so there was balance when statue was upright.
  • birds on his head
  • the fig leaf came about because the woman felt they could not enter the square with the statue being exposed, they were not used to it adn thought to be a dangerous sexual symbol.
  • bent arm broke off so a friend pinned it back together
  • Ice, Wind, Sun, a leaky gutter and during a restoration period the statue was scrubbed with a wire brush which took away some of the details.

A documentary on BBC about David:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coU8ZkC0giI


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