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Description Galleria dell'Accademia Michelangelo’s David, Florence 2019 - 48170232147.jpg |
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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft)[a] marble statue of the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of civic government in Florence, in the Piazza della Signoria where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. The statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica. Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family. The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were fixated towards Rome. |
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Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/22083482@N03/48170232147/ |
Author | George M. Groutas |
Camera location | 43° 46′ 36.2″ N, 11° 15′ 31.29″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 43.776723; 11.258691 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by George M. Groutas at https://flickr.com/photos/22083482@N03/48170232147 ( archive ). It was reviewed on 8 January 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
8 January 2020