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Why isn't Michelangelo's David circumcised?

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In the case of Michelangelo's David and other nudes depicted in a classical style, the influence of Greek art is probably relevant, and the Ancient Greeks considered a long, unretracted and tapering foreskin to be an object of beauty. read more

Michelangelo lived with the Medici for a time and grew to hate their corrupt control of the people of Florence and the popes who represented the money and power interests of these bankers. His statue David was not only a work of art to defy plutocracy and celebrate democracy as it was to extoll Greek humanism. read more

Circumcision was different in the time of David and is actually correctly noted in the statue with just the tip of the foreskin removed. It wouldn't become a more common practice to completely remove the skin until roman times. Michelangelo, by all accounts, is accurate to David's time. Indeed, you can be circumcised and have plenty of foreskin. read more

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