At the Accademia Gallery, you can admire from a short distance the perfection of the most famous statue in Florence and, perhaps, in all the world: Michelangelo’s David. This astonishing Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504.
The David, for example, is a 17 feet tall, 6 ton statue carved out of a block of Carrara marble, quarried in the town of Carrara in northern Tuscany. Although Michelangelo is credited for the creation of this well-known piece of art, multiple artists worked on it before he was commissioned to finish the sculpture at the age of 26.
David (Italian pronunciation: ) is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo. It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
The Statue of David is a 17 feet tall marble statue, standing in Accademia Gallery in Florence, Italy. Orginally made by renaissance artist Michelangelo as a part of statues to the Florence Cathedral between 1501 and 1504, the statue is now known as one of the finest piece of renaissance art ever made.
The Accademia Gallery – home to the Statue of David, Michelangelo's masterpiece, Find out all about the museum that is home to the most famous sculpture in the world!
The Galleria dell'Accademia, … in the Galleria dell'Accademia is Michelangelo's statue of David, … is the group of four unfinished marble statues of …
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