Tag: michelangelo’s david

3D Printing During the Renaissance

Post author By Jimmy Stamp
Post date 20 March, 2013

3D printing is making it drastically easier to produce infinite identical copies of anything, for better or worse, for humanitarian or for destructive purposes. A replica of Michelangelo’s David can be made at home just as easily as an assault rifle. While the relatively new technology of 3D printing is proving popular with designers, fabricators […]

Tags Alberti, makerbot, michelangelo, michelangelo's david, Theory

Architecture

The David Leaves Its Site to be Received in a Manhattan Traffic Jam

Post author By Jimmy Stamp
Post date 14 March, 2012

[Michelangelo’s David being scanned by The Digital Michelangelo Project] Last week a crotch-shot appeared in my twitter stream. Now, this isn’t normally the type of thing I’d write about but this particular crotch belonged to Michelangelo’s David, the sculpture that wikipedia tells us, has “become iconic shorthand for ‘culture’” ( and if wikipedia’s validation isn’t […]

Tags david, michelangelo, michelangelo's david, Pop culture, sculpture, Serkan Ozkaya, storefront for art and architecture, the david, Theory