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David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1] [2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo.With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, and since classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.
David is a bronze statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello, probably made in the 1440s. Nude except for helmet and boots, it is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance , and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity.
David is a marble statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello.One of his early works (1408–1409), it was originally commissioned by the Operai del Duomo, the Overseers of the Office of Works, for the Florence Cathedral and was his most important commission up to that point.
Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. The Galleria dell’Accademia’s director, Cecilie Hollberg, has positioned herself as David’s ...
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Tourists have flocked to see Michelangelo’s David sculpture in Florence following an uproar regarding a Florida school’s decision to force the resignation of its headteacher over complaints ...
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The bronze cast of David in Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence, is flanked by casts of the reclining figures in the Medici Chapel. [4]A plaster cast copy in the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was intended for the education of art students, and had a detachable fig leaf, used for added modesty during visits by Queen Victoria and other important ladies, when it was hung on ...