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Position:Home>General - Arts & Humanities > Help with Art history!?Question: Help with Art history!?Please help with this essay questions! Any ideas? Why is Michelangelo's David significant to art hostorians? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
For one thing, the story of how David came to be is quite interesting. There was an old marble column lying in an alley for about 100 years and they held a contest to determine what artist would get to carve it. The stone was rotting out on one side, so that part was unusable. Michelangelo won the contest, and sculpted David. David's body is leaning in a strange way because Michelangelo had to design David around the crumbling, rotten place in the marble. |