Comments on: Michelangelo’s David is taking over the world! http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:20:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Sarah http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-139960 Sarah Mon, 04 May 2009 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-139960 Can we focus on the lovely faded two-tone SUV in the driveway for a second? This guy's a few cans short of a six pack... Can we focus on the lovely faded two-tone SUV in the driveway for a second? This guy’s a few cans short of a six pack…

]]> By: Hannah http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-44403 Hannah Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:33:44 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-44403 Most renaissance statuary (if they still have them) do not have circumcised penii because the models wouldn't have had them and thats what they worked from. Having seen David, I'm more impressed with how nice his ass is. No guy I know has an ass like that. Most renaissance statuary (if they still have them) do not have circumcised penii because the models wouldn’t have had them and thats what they worked from.

Having seen David, I’m more impressed with how nice his ass is. No guy I know has an ass like that.

]]> By: dentalchicken http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-44384 dentalchicken Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:05:54 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-44384 2 things. I know the gentleman who owns the "David House" and he is in fact a music producer and an extremely talented singer himself. That house is in Larchmont in LA and has been the source of a lot of press for many years and it accurately reflects the flamboyance of its owner. 2ndly @ ^^Mark, that black house on Detroit is said to be owned by the Unicorn Lady, another LA legendary personality. If you have ever seen her you know what I mean. I have interviewed her many years a go and her hair is shaped like a tall cone and she believes it acts as an antenna helping her reception to alien signals. 2 things.

I know the gentleman who owns the “David House” and he is in fact a music producer and an extremely talented singer himself. That house is in Larchmont in LA and has been the source of a lot of press for many years and it accurately reflects the flamboyance of its owner.

2ndly @ ^^Mark, that black house on Detroit is said to be owned by the Unicorn Lady, another LA legendary personality. If you have ever seen her you know what I mean. I have interviewed her many years a go and her hair is shaped like a tall cone and she believes it acts as an antenna helping her reception to alien signals.

]]> By: Mark http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9797 Mark Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:47:38 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9797 PS. There is an All Black house 1/2 mile away on Detroit Street Off LaBrea. It's completely covered in black lava-stone and they say it's all black inside. The inhabitant wears all black with big slashes of black eyeliner. PS. There is an All Black house 1/2 mile away on Detroit Street Off LaBrea. It’s completely covered in black lava-stone and they say it’s all black inside. The inhabitant wears all black with big slashes of black eyeliner.

]]> By: Mark http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9796 Mark Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:44:18 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9796 One detail you might have missed: In the center of the line of Davids there is one, undersized, VENUS DE MILO. VERY Revealing, if you ask me. We used to joke that he put a statue out for every person he slept with and the size represented how good it was. I work about a mile from there, and pass it often. Every year it has a New Years display: the year in 4 foot high white letters in the little curved area in front of the Davids. Big Blocky white letters all lit up. I for one appreciate how unique it is and admire the spirit of someone like this homeowner. One detail you might have missed: In the center of the line of Davids there is one, undersized, VENUS DE MILO. VERY Revealing, if you ask me. We used to joke that he put a statue out for every person he slept with and the size represented how good it was. I work about a mile from there, and pass it often. Every year it has a New Years display: the year in 4 foot high white letters in the little curved area in front of the Davids. Big Blocky white letters all lit up. I for one appreciate how unique it is and admire the spirit of someone like this homeowner.

]]> By: Michael http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9770 Michael Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:33:39 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9770 Michelangelo was a good observer of detail. His "David" is physiologically correct, if not historically so. Hold one of your own hands at shoulder height with the other hanging below your waist and then observe that the veins in the upper hand recede from view as blood follows gravity out of it. The veins in the hand hanging down will be distended with blood. "David's" hands are sculpted to reflect these facts of physiology. Michelangelo was a good observer of detail. His “David” is physiologically correct, if not historically so. Hold one of your own hands at shoulder height with the other hanging below your waist and then observe that the veins in the upper hand recede from view as blood follows gravity out of it. The veins in the hand hanging down will be distended with blood. “David’s” hands are sculpted to reflect these facts of physiology.

]]> By: Connie http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9728 Connie Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:01:40 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9728 Yeah, David should have been circumcised but this is an artist's vision and Michaelangelo was not Hebrew - he was Roman Catholic. He felt his sculptures and inspirations were God-given so if God told him to do it this way, who are we to reason why ....? Does it bother anyone else that some of you are looking so closely? Also, according to historical data and Irving Stone's The Agony and The Ecstasy, Michaelangelo's only method of studying anatomy then to portray it correctly was by illegally dissecting cadavers, so maybe he did know what a circumcised one looked like? Yeah, David should have been circumcised but this is an artist’s vision and Michaelangelo was not Hebrew – he was Roman Catholic. He felt his sculptures and inspirations were God-given so if God told him to do it this way, who are we to reason why ….? Does it bother anyone else that some of you are looking so closely? Also, according to historical data and Irving Stone’s The Agony and The Ecstasy, Michaelangelo’s only method of studying anatomy then to portray it correctly was by illegally dissecting cadavers, so maybe he did know what a circumcised one looked like?

]]> By: heather http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9665 heather Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:01:25 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9665 it kind of makes you wonder what they pass out on Halloween. it kind of makes you wonder what they pass out on Halloween.

]]> By: Charlotte http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9659 Charlotte Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:11:10 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9659 OK, looks like I should Google first and comment later. From www.hobrad.com: CIRCUMCISION: "Sign of the Covenant" In Genesis (17:10-12,24), the cutting off of the prepuce or foreskin of the penis is first ordered by the Hebrew God Yahweh to symbolize the covenant made between Yahweh and his people. "Every male among you shall be circumcised," God tells the Hebrew patriarch Abraham, "and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and you." Abraham dutifully goes first, being circumcised at the age of ninety-nine. What I was thinking of from the book was the sons of Jacob's forced circumcision of their enemies. How the image of thousands of men being forcibly circumcized wasn't burned into my brain, I'll never know!!!! OK, looks like I should Google first and comment later. From http://www.hobrad.com:
CIRCUMCISION: “Sign of the Covenant”
In Genesis (17:10-12,24), the cutting off of the prepuce or foreskin of the penis is first ordered by the Hebrew God Yahweh to symbolize the covenant made between Yahweh and his people. “Every male among you shall be circumcised,” God tells the Hebrew patriarch Abraham, “and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and you.” Abraham dutifully goes first, being circumcised at the age of ninety-nine.

What I was thinking of from the book was the sons of Jacob’s forced circumcision of their enemies. How the image of thousands of men being forcibly circumcized wasn’t burned into my brain, I’ll never know!!!!

]]> By: Jane http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888/comment-page-1#comment-9652 Jane Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:53:48 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4888#comment-9652 AD - thank you thank you! I used to live in Illinois and used to see the statue as I was driving up to Kenosha. I always wondered what the deal was but none of my friends knew. Mystery solved! AD – thank you thank you! I used to live in Illinois and used to see the statue as I was driving up to Kenosha. I always wondered what the deal was but none of my friends knew. Mystery solved!

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