Clothing Michelangelo’s David: Sculpture as Political Power
PRESENTER John Paoletti, Emeritus Professor of Art History, Wesleyan University Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was in his early twenties when he was commissioned to create a statue representing the Biblical hero, David. He was offered a colossal block of marble which had previously been worked by two other artists and abandoned. Michelangelo accepted the challenge and […]