Comparison of Michelangelo’s and Bernini’s Davids
Title: Comparison of Michelangelo’s and Bernini’s Davids
Category: /Arts & Humanities
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Comparison of Michelangelo’s and Bernini’s Davids
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2059 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
“The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.”
~ Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo describes in the above quote what it is like to carve a likeness of a person out of a large block of marble. As we know from seeing his work, he did an excellent job with this task. Bernini did
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