Michelangelo Carving

The Famous Michelangelo was many things a sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who influenced the development of western art. He was considered to be the best artist of his life time. He was born march 6, 1475 in Caprese, Tuscany. At the age of six his mother died so Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in Settigano. He began to sculpt all kinds of things from his wooden crucifix for the Florentine church to the huge statue of Hercules he sent to France. His most known Carving is the Statue of David. Carving is the cutting of material such as stone or wood to form a figure or design. The 17 foot statue of David was created to symbolize the freedom of Florentine during the 1500. The statue was created out of a marble block from the quarries at Carrara. Michelangelo displayed to the world that he was a sculptor with extraordinary technical skill and strength of symbolic imagination. My favorite part about the piece is all the detail put into it. The challenges he had to face when carving the hair and the face had to be difficult. Even the slightest whack of the chisel and mallet can destroy a whole sculpture instantly. This sculpture has gone down in history as the greatest of all time.