Thus to the plain man there may be no metaphor in Aristotle's substance, Descartes' machine of nature, Newtonian force and attraction, Thomas Young's kinetic energy and Michelangelo's figure of Leda. Placed in their customary contexts these present nothing to him but the face of literal truth. To the initiated, however, who are aware of the gross original senses as well as the now literal senses , they may become metaphors. There are no metaphors per se....
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Michelangelo was a medieval Italian artist and architect. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards. Read more on Wikipedia →