Michelangelo’s friend and biographer, Giorgio Vasari, explained how the master carved his
figures. He says Michelangelo laid his model into a box. He filled the box with water until the figure was submerged.
Then he slowly let the water run out of the box or dipped some out.
The first parts of the figure to emerge from the water were the parts Michelangelo had to cut out first on his stone block.
Michelangelo lived in the Medici home
at the age of 13. He was raised amongst future princes
and popes and absorbed cutting-edge intellectual theories. He crossed
paths with the Medici the rest of his life, caught in a constant
struggle to escape their control.
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