Cold Comfort ❄️

Michelangelo was faced with a massive conundrum as he fashioned the large block of marble. David had been sitting patiently for weeks but was never totally at rest. He hadn’t the heart to raise the matter as it was too embarrassing for words being an inherently shy man.
He tried everything to resolve the problem - banned his gorgeous assistant from the studio, put bromide in David’s Martini and told horrible stories. To no avail.
In an unusually cold February, the statue was all but finished, but the central heating broke down. Michelangelo worked furiously, accounting for David’s famously undersized imperfection.