Il david di michelangelo sistine

Giorgio Vasari does, more than ever, briefly express the amazement of one of the greatest works ever produced by man.

At the Galleria dell'Accademia, visitors can feel near to the perfect beauty of the most famous sculpture in Florence—and maybe even worldwide: Michelangelo's David.

Hailing from the Renaissance, this striking sculpture dates back to between and It is a marble statue of feet showing the Biblical character David; it stands upright as a male nude. Its commission was originally by the Opera del Duomo for the Cathedral of Florence; they planned this to be one among many large statues to fill the nitches of the cathedral's tribunes, located around 80 meters from ground level.

The board consuls asked Michelangelo to complete work that had been started in by Agostino di Duccio and then passed on to Antonio Rossellino in

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