2020-07-02

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Great Art Explained

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Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a poet and an engineer. An outsider touched by genius. His statue of David, the most famous statue in the world, personifies the aesthetics of High Renaissance art, the politics of Renaissance Florence, and the technical virtuosity of Greek sculpture.

James Payne looks at the story of Michelangelo’s David, and discovers it is anything but the story of a teenage boy king who slew Goliath.

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SUBTITLES

Chinese Subtitles by Charles Xue

米开朗基罗的《大卫》：杰作解析

Arabic Subtitles: Head Ismael

Greek Subtitles by Dimitris Grammenos

French subtitles by Edouard Henn

BOOKS

Michelangelo: His Epic Life - Martin Gayford

Michelangelo: A Tormented Life - Antonio Forcellino

From Marble to Flesh. The Biography of Michelangelo's David - Victor Coonin

"Theme" music: JS Bach “Sonata for violin solo No.1 in G Minor”

David, Accademia, Florence. Images are in the public domain.