David

David is a perfect work of art of Renaissance form made in marble in the vicinity of 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo. David is a 5.17-meter marble statue of a standing male naked. The statue speaks to the Biblical saint David, a favored subject in the craft of Florence.

David was initially dispatched as one of a progression of statues of prophets to be situated along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, yet was rather put in an open square, outside the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of urban government in Florence, in the Piazza della Signoria where it was divulged on September 8, 1504.