DAVID: Eight Degrees of Separation


Can we get there from here?

1501-4: Michelangelo sculpts a monumental marble David
to surmount a buttress at Florence Cathedral: 1

1504: The David is placed, instead, in front of 
Palazzo Vecchio: 2

1873: The original David is transferred to the Accademia Gallery: 3

Also in 1873: A marble replica is placed in front of the Palazzo Vecchio: 4

1960s: Piazza della Signoria (with the replica of Michelangelo's David) is documented by a photographer: 5

1980s: The resulting photograph is enlarged, transferred to formica and featured on a Traditional Floren- tine Tripe Stand: 6

2010: The tripe stand is captured in context by our eagle-eyed photographer: 7

2011: What you see is what you get...live and online!: 8



More Michelangelo's David?
More Mysteries of Florence?

PHOTOGRAPH: Florentine Street Scene ©Lyle Goldberg

3 comments:

  1. This is, on the surface, fun and ha ha...but as always, you posts are seductively thought provoking ~ if one wants them to be.

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  2. Well, you know how it is... Some people want their thoughts provoked and some don't! The tripe stand in question (Ciao, Marco!)is right around the corner from my house and I have eaten there as recently as 45 minutes ago. However, the photo (which we shot in the summer of 2010) was rather lucky. A few weeks later, the shop changed hands and was given a new name. They still sell "intimate apparel" but it is no longer called INTIMISSIMI and the window displays are less mythic.

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  3. Oh, how lucky you are, to live where you live....if only we had delicious tripe stands here in my part of the world ~ I would have nothing to complain about, ever!!

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