Michelangelo's "David" and Social Values

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This paper discusses Michelangelo's sculpture, "David," and how it reflects on the artistic and social values of the Italian Renaissance era. The paper explains the value the Renaissance era placed on sculpture and its fascination for classical antiquity, as well as its emphasis on the glory of the human body.

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"The sculpture by the Renaissance Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti of the Biblical hero "David" is so famous that statue's ubiquitous appearance in parody and in actual texts upon the history and aesthetics of art has rendered the work's appearance a cliche more an a inspiring work of sculpture. However, rather than simply something that is a pre-extant work for the ages, it is important to remember that the work's construction is the product of a particular period of history, not something that sprung fully-fledged from the mind of Michelangelo."

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