Primary Document: Ideal Society
Florence
Giorgio Vasari
Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo
Student Questions
- Why did Michelangelo's friends urge him to return to Florence?
- Why did Michelangelo choose to sculpt a statue of David? What did it represent?
- What does the transforming work of this flawed marble into the David which,
according to Vasari, "no one need to see anything else by any other sculptor" represent?
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