Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of Renaissance artwork and remains a well-known symbol of Italy. More than 1.4 million people visit the sculpture annually at Florence's ...
including Michelangelo's 16th-century sculpture of David, every year. The problem this time was that the administration didn't follow board policy to notify parents so they could decide whether to ...
The Commission voted unanimously on Monday to stick with the city's logo after some time flirting with choosing an alternative.
The Florence museum that houses Michelangelo's statue of David has invited teachers and students from a Florida school to visit, after an uproar over an art lesson. The school's principal quit ...
She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...
The sculptures, known as the Rothschild bronzes, are believed to have been created after Michelangelo's marble masterpiece David, and before he began painting the elaborate Sistine Chapel ceiling ...
Michelangelo, who had just completed his statue David, and Leonardo da Vinci were already in Florence; Raphael traveled to the city that year to study Leonardo’s work. Leonardo, who was around ...
Since the 1980s, the city’s symbol has been a golden shadow of Michelangelo’s David. The iconic Italian Renaissance statue currently stands at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence ...