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The David

Yesterday I read an article. It mentioned when Michelangelo’s Statue of David was first installed in the Cathedral of Florence.
The date: 8 June 1504, Italian Renaissance.
I wondered how on Earth did the Church authorities allow David to be exposed inside a Roman Catholic Church.
Maybe the Roman Catholic Church tolerance of nude bodies ended with the Italian Renaissance.

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I once stood for hours
Looking at the ravaged symmetry
Of the broken marble pillars
Of the Parthenon. White, tall ruins
Weathered yet proud.
Someone said:
What do you see in old stones?

.
Eternity.

Thanks, B.

 

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more or less inspiring


Our ideas feature

words paint pictures

life as art

Still life

There is nothing

more or less inspiring

than peach like hips

and a pair of breasts


Still life in a niche, Frans Snijders

Sleeping bather, Pierre Auguste Renoir

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