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Michelangelo's David

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During the 1000 years before the Renaissance, the west was shaped to admire and accept the Medieval Christians beliefs, which divided the universe into two parts: a heavenly realm of absolute happiness and perfection and a dark infinite world of misery and agony and the earthly realm. Since man had to pay for his crime of the Original Sin for being ignorant and going against God’s word. Renaissance means “rebirth”, but refers to man’s life on earth. Man’s free from the chains of authority and able to view and understand the universe. Michelangelo’s “David” is the best reflection of the Renaissance sense of life. It is an amazing piece of art recalling the biblical story of David and Goliath, where a young man defeated a giant tyrant in the
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