My 2 most favorite works of art ever!!!

This is my second favorite. The Silver Swan Automaton created in 1771 that now stands in the Bowes museum. It is made entirely out of sterling silver and life size. It is the most sophisticated music box ever made. As the music plays the swan bends her neck to catch the fish running by.

Michelangelo was 24 in 1488 when he started carving this out of a single piece of marble. He said that he saw this inside the stone as God directed him. In one year he had finished. The detail and delicacy of this stone masterpiece is incomparable to anything ever made. There is luminescence in the figure which almost seem to glow and the veins are exact and seem to almost still have blood running threw them. The proportion of Mary is debated as being wrong because if she stood she would be over six feet tall but who cares. It is art and the impact and sorrow of the moment. You can see light threw her veil because the marble has been carved and polished to the smallest degree. This fantastic piece of art was damaged in the 70's when a crazed man with a mallet hit and broke off Mary's nose while it was on display in London. Many people worked on the delicate repair but we will never see the perfect piece again.

Meow for now,

Catraven =^..^=