That, and if you look at the statue's face head-on the poor guy is TERRIFIED! Bro's fighting Goliath! Can't say I'd be at full mast if I was fighting a giant with a rock
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What's pretty interesting is if you look at it from below, the impression you're left with is "stoic or resolute". It's only when you get high enough to look him in the eye (or higher) that the fear is apparent. To a man, David is a legend. To Goliath, the legend is a man.
aug 7, 2025, 7:07 pm • 4 1 • view
I agree on that, his expression changes as you move, but it's still all up to interpretation. So me calling it uncertainty may not be appropriate, there's a moment where it even seems to ME as he seems determined in the rotation.
aug 7, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
It's truly remarkable how an expression literally frozen in stone can have so many multitudes. He's also missing a muscle in the shoulder. How'd someone who did autopsies to increase their knowledge of human anatomy forget a thing like that? He didn't. It was left out to manage a flaw in the stone.
aug 7, 2025, 7:37 pm • 3 1 • view
Wasn't a muscle under under the neck, between the shoulders the one he pulled out for aesthetic reasons?
aug 7, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
The infraspinatus specifically. It's debated if he left it out for aesthetics or not. But the block was used; Two other sculptors tried and gave up on it. So it's likely that compromises had to be made. I've heard about an air pocket in the marble as a flaw, but can't find anything about it now.
aug 7, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
I see, thanks for explaining more, is amazing how underestimated things get with time and how granted we take them for that people stop looking at them, like these pieces of art still have a world of things going on, there is no way we wil ever be done with them.
aug 7, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you seen what a sling can do?! I'd at least be half mast.
aug 7, 2025, 11:25 am • 3 0 • view
aug 7, 2025, 10:07 am • 16 0 • view
Yeah, the higher you see it (closer to Goliath's PoV), the more scared he looks. Of COURSE he's got some shrinkage going on.
aug 7, 2025, 9:19 am • 2 0 • view
My experience wrestling in high school agrees, but my macro fetish says, "Hol' up, here me out."
aug 7, 2025, 11:11 am • 3 0 • view
Guys stop calling out my lie
aug 7, 2025, 8:15 pm • 1 0 • view