'I was almost sick': the young Melbourne artists reimagining Michelangelo's David

Like the master himself, students were challenged to ‘create a vision of human physical perfection’. Their responses are on show a stone’s throw from his

“After seeing this no one need wish to look at any other sculpture or the work of any other artist,” wrote Giorgio Vasari, the Italian 16th century historian, about Michelangelo’s David.

Such is the beauty of Michelangelo’s masterpiece – showing a David just before or after defeating Goliath, with creamy marble skin, taut stomach and determined gaze – that it remains today an embodiment of virile physical perfection.

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