Michael Angelo

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Theology

Michealangelo’s gigantic marble David,which he created between

1501 and 1504 after returning to Florence, brought him to his

high point of his career. David was illustrated as a lithe nude

youth, muscular and alert, looking off into the distance as if

sizing up the enemy Goliath, whom he has not yet encountered.

The fiery intensity of David’s facial expression is called

terribilita, a feature characteristic of many of Michealangelo’s

figures and his own personailty. This piece of art work became

the symbol of Florence and originally was placed in the Piazza

della Signoria in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine

town hall. With this sculpture Michealangelo proved his

contemporaries that he not only surpassed all modern artists,

but also Greeks and Romans, by infusing formal beauty with

powerful expressiveness and meaning....