Today is Michelangelo’s birthday.
Take a quiet moment and revel in the most astonishing creative mind. Not just in his day, but for the ages.
As an extremely amateurish stone sculptor, this man’s work is a never-ending source of inspiration and awe.
Go. Enjoy.
Cartooniverse, who will start a new piece today in his honor.
wasn’t he a turtle?
i’m so sorry…
You should be. For shame.
No Toads In The Hole for you this day !!!
I’m going to Florence at the end of the month, so I’ll see lots of his stuff (again) when I’m there. I can’t wait.
That’s why google has the Michelangelo thing on their main page…I was trying to figure out why, but couldn’t…thanks.
If it weren’t for the Michelangelo virus scare back in 1992 I wouldn’t have remembered this as Michelangelo’s bihday. I remember that I left my computer turned off for that entire day (turned out I never had the virus).
Apparently Googleangelo’s “David” came without the optional penis.
Lsura, the alt text on the Google logo will tell you what it’s for, if it’s not the usual.
After 2550 posts, we’d all like to think that Lsura knows just what a penis is for.
D&R 
Well, I cut a bit of stone, but roughed out the design in pencil all over it. I wish I had some Bruno Caramella alabaster, its veining makes it look like flesh.
I think I see a penis on Google’s David. Except with the size of the graphic combined with the size of the original’s trouser snake (then again, David is positively hung compared to Adam), it’s about 3 pixels big.
Damn, I was going to say something inspired in a thread about one of the greatest artists ever, and I end up posting about ding-dongs.
Well, I have learned something in almost three years here.
They’re for TMI threads.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I’ll wait for Georgia O’Keefe’s birthday to ask the follow-up question.
:eek:
I was in Florence on March 6, and didn’t know it was his birthday! Saw David at the Academia and toured the Medici Chapel. My god that man was amazing.
Hey, we are going to be there too. At the same time. Look for a large, corpulent guy with thinning grey hair, a grenadier moustache, and glasses with a lady much too good looking to be hanging out with the likes of him. I am the very same person, the guy with no grasp of the language shouting (in English) “how much is it,” and waiving a credit card.
To get back to the subject, the Birthday Boy is one of the two pillars of the High Renaissance. His memory and reputation hardly need my feeble comments on his importance and influence. I’m really looking forward to seeing the restored ceiling in the Vatican.