Michelangelo was in his mid-20s when he worked on the statue David, which took him two years to complete. The piece of marble he worked with had been left sitting outside, exposed to the elements for some 25 years after it had been hauled from a quarry 60 miles away. The original commission for the creation of the statue was handed out before Michelangelo was born, but the first sculptor died and the second moved to another village. This glorious piece of sculpting was unveiled to the Florentine public on Sept. 8, 1504 (Michelangelo was 33 at the time). Five hundred years later adoring tourists still clamor to gaze upon and pose before it.
I had the good fortune of seeing David in person during a trip to Italy in the spring of 1993 (that's me, below, in the glasses). This was two years after it had been vandalized. At seventeen feet tall he was much larger than I expected. This made him easy to spot, looming in the distance when we entered Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia. Visitors could get surprisingly close to him, and the smoothness of the marble tempted me to reach out and run my hands over his tight, perfectly formed buttocks. What a magnificent sight to behold!
Speaking of beautiful butts, fast forward 500 years and we had Mario Lopez's sexy buns to ogle during a tantalizing shower scene from a 2006 episode of the TV show Nip/Tuck. (It starts at about the one-minute mark.)
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