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    Michelangelo sculpted his famous statue of David in the early 1500s. Considered his masterpiece, David depicts the biblical hero before his famous battle with Goliath. The statue was originally placed in the Piazza Signoria in Florence as a symbol of the city's liberty and strength against its enemies. It is now housed in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and regarded as one of the greatest works of Renaissance sculpture.

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    Michelangelo sculpted his famous statue of David in the early 1500s. Considered his masterpiece, David depicts the biblical hero before his famous battle with Goliath. The statue was originally placed in the Piazza Signoria in Florence as a symbol of the city's liberty and strength against its enemies. It is now housed in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and regarded as one of the greatest works of Renaissance sculpture.

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    Michelangelo sculpted his famous statue of David in the early 1500s. Considered his masterpiece, David depicts the biblical hero before his famous battle with Goliath. The statue was originally placed in the Piazza Signoria in Florence as a symbol of the city's liberty and strength against its enemies. It is now housed in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and regarded as one of the greatest works of Renaissance sculpture.

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    Michelangelo’s David

    Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February


    1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter,
    architect and poet of the High Renaissance
    born in the Republic of Florence, who
    exerted an unparalleled influence on the
    development of Western art. Considered
    the greatest living artist during his lifetime,
    he has since been described as one of the
    greatest artists of all time. A number of
    Michelangelo's works of painting, sculpture
    and architecture rank among the most
    famous in existence. He sculpted two of his
    best-known works, the Pietà and David,
    before the age of thirty.

    Nor has even been seen a pose so fluent or


    a gracefulness equal to this or feet, hands
    and head so well related to each other with
    quality, skill and design with these words
    Giorgio Vasari attempts to define the
    reasons behind the marvel that the vision of
    David provokes in the observer he
    continues by stating that the statue so far
    surpasses both in beauty and technique
    ancient and modern statuary that one
    needn’t bother seeing other works in
    sculpture.

    At the end of 1501 Michelangelo obtained the permission of the Oprah Adele Domo to
    work on a block of marble which had been abandoned in the courtyard of the cathedral of
    Florence for the creation of the figure of the young hero, subsequently placed in front of
    Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza Signoria. It has always been a subject of debate among
    scholars whether David is represented before or after his victory over Goliath, his sling is
    also barely visible as though to emphasize how David owed his victory not to brutal force
    but to his intellect and to his innocence. As soon as it was placed in front of Palazzo
    Vecchio the statue became a symbol of liberty and of civic pride for the Florentine
    Replublic, surrounded by hostile enemies the city identified itself with the young hero who
    with help of God had defeated a much more powerful foe.

    In 1873 Michelangelo was brought to the Tribune of the Galleria built expressly for it and
    only in 1908 was it substituted in Piazza Signoria by the marble copies still there today, the
    bronze copy found in Piazzale Michelangelo overlooking Florence was done in 1866.

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