Just to have
seen Michaelangelo's David in real life is the answer to the question of its being
"something beyond" Renaissance standards of perfection of the spirit in the perfection
of the body. For, Michaelangelo was able to create such vitality and fluid fintensity in his
sculpture of marble.
Only twenty-six when he shaped the young David,
Michaelangelo generated into the youth an electricity and intensity unparalleled by other
artists, perhaps imbuing some of his own exuberance into the marble. While others have depicted
David in conquest of the giant, or drawing a bead on his target with a young and unerring eye as
did Bernini,...
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