![]() 1 Michelangelo created David out of a single piece of Carrara marble that forty years before had been discarded as unworkable by two other sculptors, Agostino di Duccio and Antonio Rossellino. In 1501, the city government of Florence commissioned Michelangelo to create David as part of a series of statues meant to surround the roofline of Florence’s cathedral dome. Michelangelo’s David, the representation of the idealized male body, has strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes. Yet until recently, an obvious physical abnormality had gone largely unrecognized. For over 600 years, it has been viewed by millions of tourists and by millions more in photographs or books. It is one of the most recognizable sculptures in Western art, the work of an acclaimed Renaissance artist. Strabismo di Venere-Michelangelo’s David August 27, 2021įigure 1: Eyes of David.
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