'A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.' -Samuel Johnson
To see David is to understand the Greek obsession with little dicks and big hands.
He stands, as a cultured warrior, not as a brute.
Nude, but not naked.
Pictures may be the same on a screen as in person -- but sculpture is never so. Sculpture is the art of walking, of seeing the angles -- of being part of the experience, yourself. So too is architecture.
To see David is to understand the Greek obsession with little dicks and big hands.
He stands, as a cultured warrior, not as a brute.
Nude, but not naked.
Pictures may be the same on a screen as in person -- but sculpture is never so. Sculpture is the art of walking, of seeing the angles -- of being part of the experience, yourself. So too is architecture.