The Private Life of a Masterpiece

Michelangelo: David (7x1)

Data di messa in onda: Dic 15, 2001

Michelangelo's large-scale marble sculpture, represents the biblical figure of David, a favoured subject in the art world of Florence at the end of the 15th century. This episode begins in a marble quarry, and slowly reveals how the artist managed to capture the human body in exquisitely fine detail, when so many other before him tried and failed.