It highlights the exchange of DNA between homologous chromosomes via a process called homologous recombination and the cross-over at chiasma (ta) between non-sister chromatids. Thus, this stage is important to increase genetic variation.
Most Famous Works Of Art: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. 3. David Statue â Michelangelo â David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude.
Probably the most famous example of fifteenth-century sculpture is the bronze David by Donatello. Dates for the work vary from the 1430s to the 1460s. It is recorded as the centerpiece of the first courtyard in the Palazzo Medici during the wedding festivities of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini in 1469. Some have argued that it was commissioned by Cosimo de' Medici in the 1430s to be the centerpiece of the courtyard of the older Medici house on the Via Larga. The following collection of images demonstrates the wide popularity of the image of David and Goliath in fifteenth century Florentine art.