MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: 8 Degrees of Separation
Visitors from more puritanical climes have long been assaulted by the “sheer physicality” of Italy.
They stare in wonder at all those museums full of naked statues and paintings and all those streets full of strutting, preening locals.
Where does cultural curiosity end and vulgar voyeurism begin?
Then how about Michelangelo's David?
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CAN WE GET FROM HERE...
...TO HERE?
LET'S START COUNTING!
1501-4: Michelangelo sculpts a monumental marble David to surmount a buttress at Florence Cathedral: 1
1504: The David is placed, instead, in front of Palazzo Vecchio: 2
1873: The original David is transferred to the Accademia Gallery: 3
Also in 1873: A marble replica is placed in front of the Palazzo Vecchio: 4
(For steps 1 through 4, you can find a fuller chronology with Illustrations here.)
Circa 1960: Piazza della Signoria (with the replica of Michelangelo's David) is documented by a photographer: 5
1980s: The resulting photograph is enlarged, transferred to easy-care formica and featured on a traditional Florentine Tripe Stand: 6
2010: A latter-day photographer captures our Tripe Stand David in full context: 7
2011: Yours, online: 8
NOTE TO SELF:
Over the years, I have eaten an obscene quantity of trippa, lampredotto, budellina and the like —and I have the photos to prove it. So, I need to do some posts on Florentine Tripe Stands...
In the meantime, here is a big-picture shot of Marco Bolognesi's location (as it was in Via Gioberti, after Intimissimi decamped but before Marco shifted a couple of dozen meters to nearby Piazza Beccaria).
For more about Florentine soccer cutlure, see;
GOING TO THE INDIAN: Across Florence’s Cascine Park and off the Edge of the Earth (Part 3)
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Michelangelo Fusion in Piazza della Signoria.
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Through a glass reflectively, in mosaic too.
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Let’s count the degrees of separation—from here back to the original...
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, whether in marble, bronze, fiberglass or human flesh.
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