Yeahhh.. It's annoying and beyond pointless. Like What'r the chances there's a dozen other relevant posts to link to under the hashtag "he looked at the marble and said 'no fuck you I will make this my masterpiece and it will be the greatest thing I have ever made.'"
He did? I watched a documentary where they said the huge block of marble he was given was a luxuriously expensive piece, hard to extract and transport without it falling apart and such
I'd be more inclined to believe your comment then the hashtags. Marble, especially the size required for this sculpture, is heavy, hard to mine (a solid piece this large) and immensely hard and expensive to move. The time involved to sculpt it would not be valued at zero, so he may not have been thrilled with the material but it's not like he was all "Oh no, woe is me to have this million dollar (or whatever the equivalent for the time period was) slab of marble delivered to me, whatever shall I do?"
That's not completely true :p
I went to the Galeria dell'Accademia in Florence and the explanation they present is much more normal. Basically someone carved the feet and didn't finish, so he just carved the rest to his design. Not that much drama to it XD
I went to the Galeria dell'Accademia in Florence and the explanation they present is much more normal. Basically someone carved the feet and didn't finish, so he just carved the rest to his design. Not that much drama to it XD