![]() At the turn of the century, the Vestry Board of Florence Cathedral and the Wool Guild were seeking an artist to create a giant "David." It now stands in the Accademia Gallery in Florence. Just two years before in Rome, he had finished the heartbreakingly beautiful "Pieta," in which Jesus lays in his mother's lap after his body came down from the cross. When Michelangelo began the "David" in 1501, the then-26-year-old's career was trending upward quickly. ![]() Did Michelangelo know about jugular venous distention? The artist may have even realized this long before medical experts did, Gelfman said. “What this shows is that it’s actually something that you can visualize on a frequent basis, given a certain set of circumstances.” “What he’s noticing, which is so interesting, he’s noticing a physiological change in somebody who’s getting ready to exert,” Gelfman said.
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