"Given the familiarity of the David, it is difficult for us to appreciate just how novel it is. I believe David looks as it does because Michelangelo... was free to carve a completely original work. And that is precisely what he did." https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/how-michelangelo-made-david-into-a-giant-2412/?fbclid=IwAR2buw03QR0pKVDQgVTpaY_lC3D_I96FC-N-Y7DbT9WCSHRPROVVeM3tbAg
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Jews in 17th-century Florence were confined to a ghetto & allowed to work only in certain professions. Yet Jewish painter Jona Ostiglio was a card-carrying member of a prestigious academy & painter at the Medici court. A unique painter whose existence was practically unknown until now, was he an exception or was his position more commonplace at the time than we know? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/world/europe/jewish-artist-medici-florence.html
#RenaissanceArt #Medici #MedievalArt #FlorentineArt #ArtHistory #ArtMuseum #ArtCollector #PotterdayArt

Jews in 17th-century Florence were confined to a ghetto & allowed to work only in certain professions. Yet Jewish painter Jona Ostiglio was a card-carrying member of a prestigious academy & painter at the Medici court. A unique painter whose existence was practically unknown until now, was he an exception or was his position more commonplace at the time than we know? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/16/world/europe/jewish-artist-medici-florence.html
#RenaissanceArt #Medici #MedievalArt #FlorentineArt #ArtHistory #ArtMuseum #ArtCollector #PotterdayArt