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...Michelangelo Buonarroti . . . wore stockings of dogskin for months together, and when he took them off the skin of the leg sometimes came with them." Once, Pier Soderini (a Florentine politician) said he thought the nose of the David too short, so Michelangelo "took his chisel and a little loose marble dust in his hand and climbed the scaffolding. As he tapped lightly on the chisel, he let the marble dust drift down. 'I like it better now,' said Soderini. 'You have given it life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Renaissance Snippets | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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