MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: 6 Degrees of Separation
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MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: 8 Degrees of Separation
MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: 9 Degrees of Separation
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: Instead, the David was placed in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, where it remained for three-and-a-half centuries: 2
1871: A bronze replica of the David was embedded in a merry mash-up of a monument in Piazzale Michelangiolo (high above the city), flanked by the artist's Four Times of Day from the New Sacristy at San Lorenzo: 3
MEANWHILE:
In 1873, the original David was transferred to the Accademia Gallery...
...but did not go on view for nine years.
Also in 1873, a marble replica of the David was placed in front of the Palazzo Vecchio to substitute the missing original.
Now picking up where we left off in PIAZZALE MICHELANGIOLO:
2009: Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, an Asian visitor is photographed while imitating an imitation of Michelangelo's David : 4
In turn, the guy who did The David Thing photographed the guy who photographed him: 5
Meanwhile, they were both secretly photographed by another photographer —with these images to prove it: 6
ALSO:
If you want, we could run through another series of fateful encounters working back from the garment below.
But ...if you don't mind... maybe some other time?
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Michelangelo Fusion in Piazza della Signoria.
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Michelangelo's David, plus space and silence and no tourists.
Zero degrees of separation to count!
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Through a glass reflectively, in mosaic too.
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Intimate apparel by way of Trippa alla Fiorentina, from Piazza della Signoria to Piazzale Michelangelo to Via Gioberti.
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