Comedy character Philomena Cunk observes that Michelangelo's David has painstaking anatomical detail—pupils, muscles, veins—yet inexplicably lacks an anus. The omission opens baffling possibilities: did the sculptor get embarrassed, did the model leave early, or did the model simply not have one? It is a comedic lens on what Renaissance artists chose to depict versus deliberately omit.
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