How, physically, did Michelangelo construct David?
Sculpted from a single, very large, block of marble that had been left over from a building site. There are three versions of the David statue in Florence. The best-sited version is a copper cast on a hilltop overlooking the city. The original stands in a museum in a hall full of Michelangelo’s unfinished works, giving a good idea of how he would have gone about sculpting his masterwork. However, it also gives the viewer a hint that he wasn’t a complete genius; one of the unfinished statues doesn’t have enough marble left above his chin to form a full head, which smacks of a bit of bad planning on the part of the artist. I understand a bit of French. How quickly can I pick up Italian? Written Italian, very quickly (a knowledge of Latin helped a little, too, but not as much as expected). Conversational Italian, perhaps not so much, but they’re a very friendly people and don’t object at all to conversing in English, unlike the French, who are often too proud, arrogant or impatient to giv
