Michelangelo's David stands a near 17 foot tall in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence Italy. It represents a bridge between traditional Roman artwork, and the Historical significant biblical story of David and Goliath.

Traditionally David has always been shown during or after the epic biblical battle. Michelangelo captures a tense almost war ready David.

I bring this famous statue to light in our ongoing discussion because of its current state. Below is a link concerning the danger this statue is in due to the construction project that in the works for Florence this summer.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03/06/2011-03-06_michelangelos_david_in_danger_of_collapse_because_of_cracks_in_marble_highspeed_.html?r=news

A plague during the late 1300s that is estimated to have wiped out nearly half of the European population. The details of this event were outlined in the week's lecture and the great link to the history channels documentary about the event. For my ID I wanted to look at some of the online visual media that is associated to the black plague and helped me understand its devastating effects on the population during this time. The historical significance of this particular ID is one of the greatest catastrophes on a given human population in the history of this planet. Understanding its influences on the demographics of the population really help shape the opinion of the immediate history to fallow as well as the implications of this type of event has on the world population as a whole. The artifact I found was the Totentanz by Bernt Notke really summarizes the my thoughts on this event as being completely neutralizing the class system and "leveling" the playing field so to speak. This is represented by Death dancing among individuals and what struck me as most intriguing was the dead like appearance of the living and the liveliness of the dead.

The Peace of God and the Truce of God, as a movement I feel fits in nicely with our discussions, lecture and readings of the week. Simply the movement was an attempt to spread the word to the secular population by means other than violence.

Historical context involved these movements coming during both local war and after times of invasion and war, often to provide a place or move to stability and comfort. I mentioned attempt because the meetings or town hall gathers that were held were often short or numbers. When and if people actually attended, adherence rate was low, and rarely did ideas stick.

Fallowing artifices are a sample of the material i found including a great entry via wiki, and a very interesting virtual/interactive map that I found useful especially in this google maps era we are currently in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Truce_of_God

http://www.peacedocs.com/Site/Maps_Timelines___Europe_800-1100.html