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&gt; Michelangelo completed the David at the age of 29, after spending roughly 12 years already being praised by damn near ever person with lungs, while also starting to paint, which he is lauded for as well. I appreciate the whole optimistic, "You can be anything you want to be!" but to try and claim that Michelangelo didn't have an immense amount of natural talent, creating artistic feats that have hardly ever been matched, is totally insane.

Actually, until Michelangelo had sculpted *David* he still was a relative unknown. He made waves in Rome when he sculpted his first masterpiece, his *Pieta*, but in Florence, his home city where he really cared about, he still was not as recognized as he would be.  That he managed to convince the council to give him the uncompleted commission to finish the "Giant" block of marble is actually remarkable.

Now, after he unveiled *David* , THEN he was praised from rooftop with everyone with lungs. But not before then.
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