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[–] • 12 pts

Holy shit, apparently i've never seen it with something for scale.

[–] • 6 pts

Same here. I've seen pictures all my life but never with anything to compare it to so until now I thought it was roughly 1:1 scale. Clearly I was wrong.

[–] • 3 pts

Me either. It’s so much more impressive now. And the fact that he accomplished it at 26 is just...wow.

[–] • 1 pt

I knew it was way bigger than lifesize, but not quite that huge.

[–] • 0 pt

Was just about to type the same thing! Daamn thats statue is big!

[–] • 0 pt

Ditto. I figured it was more or less to scale.

[–] • 4 pts

How did he get Dave to pose like that for two whole years?

[–] • 1 pt

He must have been working 16 hour days for that time. That's huge.

[–] • 1 pt

That bitch is taking a really good peak at that giant dick.

[–] • 1 pt

Amazing, especially for a turtle.

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If "Salvator Mundi" sold for 450 million, how much would "David" be worth?

It would have to be at least a billion dollars.

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I think people fail to understand he had helpers most of them did it would be like saying look Trump built those towers in 5 years he is unbelievble.. no he hired people for almost every aspect of the job I'm more impressed with Micheal Angelo then modern people like Trump and Elon musk and bezos etc etc

[–] • 1 pt

Does anyone know if he had someone standing there for two years while he tried to emulate what he saw, or did he just have this in his head? Is there anyone doing super realistic sculptures like this today?

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

What I want to know is what happens when you fuck up? Can the art be salvaged or does the sculptor need to start over with a whole new slab of marbel?

[–] • 8 pts

I don’t think Mick fucked up too often, but for most sculptors they use wax to hide or fix imperfections. This practice is apparently the origin of the word sincere - in Latin sine means without and cere means wax, so sincere means without wax, referring to a perfect sculpture without imperfections that needed to be hidden.

[–] • 2 pts

I never new that word origin and it is absolutely awesome.

[–] • 0 pt

Cool story bro

sincere adj. 1533, honest, straightforward; borrowed from Middle French sincere, from Latin sincērus sound, whole, pure, genuine, perhaps originally “of one growth,” not hybrid, unmixed (dissimilated by loss of r after c in earlier *sincrēros), from sem-, sin- one (cognate with Greek heis, hén one; see SAME) + the root of crēscere to grow; see CRESCENT.

[–] • 3 pts

Fucking up a single piece of marble of that size would mean the end of the sculptor's career. Think about how many men it took just to quarry and move it, let alone the value of finding a piece of pure white stone that size.

Fortunately they have a lot of techniques to ensure woopsies aren't likely. For example, they'll typically start by sculpting a miniature of the piece in clay or wax, then gradually scale it up using pantographs.

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There's quarrys full of this stuff, where the whole ground is marble

[–] • 0 pt (edited )

Yes, but cutting out a flawless piece of it that size and transporting it to a city intact is no mean feat. Keep in mind they didn't have low loaders back then. They had to do it with barges and carts.

[–] • 3 pts

You start over. That is why this is a masterpiece. He had to find a slab of marble that big without flaws. Internal flaws could not be detected at that time, so it was a huge gamble. His genius comes from his ability to "see" the finished product in his mind and also possess the skills to remove the marble so that only his vision remained. He did all this with a hammer and chisel. What you don't see in most photos is the amazing detail that he achieved in his works. (boredpanda.com)

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Holy F! That level of detail is insane does anything modern even come close to comparison?

[–] • 2 pts

It was supposed to be 100 feet tall, but after several revisions and two years later, this was the outcome. ;)

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

The original block of marble was a fuck up from another sculptor.

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Could you imagine like a year in and bam hit the wrong spot and fuck it up...

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Another example of white excellence.

[–] • 0 pt

why did he carve a jew?

[–] • 0 pt

An Israelite. The kingdom had not broken in half yet.

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the star of david is an occult symbol and has nothing to do with judiasm

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