Proof That Michelangelo Was a Genius

For over 500 years, millions of people have stood in front of the David and walked away without noticing it. Hidden inside the most famous sculpture in the world are two details so deliberate, so precise, and so loaded with meaning that art historians are still debating them today. One of them has been dismissed as a mistake for centuries. It was never a mistake. In this video, we go inside the decisions Michelangelo buried in the David — and why a twenty six year old working from a block two sculptors had already abandoned understood something about this sculpture that most people still don't.