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Leonardo da Vinci

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+++++++++++ The story of the statue of David begins with a stone block brought to Florence by boat across the Mediterranean and Arno from the Fantiscritti quarry in Carrara, this block was stored for years waiting to be carved. In the middle of the 15th century, the managers of the Opera del Duomo and the leaders of the union of the Knitters of Florence promoted an ambitious project that consisted of sculpting twelve figures to decorate the exterior of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore today known as the Duomo of Florence.

This block of marble of 5.50 meters was called "the giant" after that in 1460 Agostino di Duccio and Antonio Rossellino tried to sculpt it without success leaving it impracticable to be part of the project and falling back into oblivion in some warehouse. At the beginning of the 16th century, the project resumed evaluating the names of the artists of the moment as Andrea Sansovino, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti. In 1501, the Opera del Duomo of Florence officially commissioned this project to Michelangelo provoking an interest such that this genius isolated himself to make the sculpture. Michelangelo sculpted the David from September of 1501 until May of 1504, resulting in this icon of the Renaissance with a size and proportions of enormous dimensions. The David is just over 5 meters high and exceeds five tons.

The David is considered the apex of the sculptural work of Michelangelo.

Hand detail from Michelangelo’s masterpiece.

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Nosferatu (2024)

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Since first I saw your face, this music has been singing to me of you and of - love triumphant! Yet listen - there sounds an ominous undercurrent of warning! 

The Phantom of the Opera (1925) dir. Rupert Julian

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Marlon Brando going over the script on the set of The Men, 1949.

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Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction, 1956

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Charles Schurer Apgar - Lightning Strike, 1930

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Carl Theodor Dreyer - Vampyr - (1932)

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