Was Michelangelo guilty of body shaming when he made the sculpture of David?

I don’t know, but as far as I can tell, nudity seemed to hold a very heavenly symbolism in Renaissance art. There are tons of painting with nudity, and most of them center around godly figures. I think the Renaissance thought of nudity very differently from modern people, like it symbolized purity/chosen by God or something.

I guess a Renaissance person looking at David would be like “omg this is truly the child of the God!” instead of thinking of shaming.

No. Political correctness did not run amok in his day.

Just guessing…men were especially athletic back then. They didn’t have a TV nor a comfy sofa to sit on all day. They had no car so they walked everywhere they needed to go.They worked in the fields in order to feed their family. They didn’t use guns because swords & the bow & arrow were their method of killing the animals to feed their family as well. My Gramps was born in 1906 & he was a farmer. He was fairly well ripped compared to the men now days & he NEVER once stepped foot in a gym…plus, he lived to be 95 years old!!!

Rubens was guilty as well but in a different way.

Not body shaming, maybe age shaming———why a young David, not older?

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The raised arm on the statue is holding a sling that hangs down his back- implying he has just killed or about to kill Goliath. Probably just killed Goliath given the posture. That means he was a kid.

You forgot to mention his micropenis.

Nothing wrong with a micropenis. It’s not the size of the ship but the motion of the ocean that counts

Tell that to the mothership in Independence Day Resurgence..

A micropenis was the thing to have back then.

It looks like an average sized penis to me.

No, I don’t think it was body shaming. I think he just had a love for the lines of the male body.. It was a “thing” during that era, I think.

I’d call it the opposite of body shaming, actually.
This is body shaming! And THAT is a micropenis!