Statue of David
About Statue of David
David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17 metres, the David was not only the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance, but also the first since classical antiquity, setting a precedent for the 16th century and beyond. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of twelve prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in the public square in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. In 1873, the statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. In 1910 a replica was installed at the original site on the public square.
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The Statue of David was commissioned about 100 years before it was actually built, and Donatello was one on the sort of committee that decided it had to be built, and his students had some attempts, and they cocked it up. Eventually people applied to be the one who got to design the Statue of David — Leonardo da Vinci was considered but rejected.
from No Such Thing As Jesus's Magic Wand, 2015-05-15 at 00:39:25 · read transcript
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