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Comparison of Two Davids
Title: Comparison of Two Davids
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2108 | Pages: 9.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Comparison of Two Davids
“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 …showed first 75 words of 2108 total…
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