Artistically, Donatello’s David broke new ground by being the first male, nude, free-standing European statue since classical antiquity. While nudity is a common feature in art from ancient ...

Where Donatello's life-sized bronze raised eyebrows, Michelangelo's super-sized David (1501-4), the most famous David of all, also elicited strong reactions when the marble sculpture took up a ...

A detail of Michelangelo's 16th century statue of David is seen on display on March 18, 2024, ... including Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man," Donatello’s David and Botticelli’s "Birth of Venus." ...

Donatello, “St. John the Baptist” of Casa Martelli (1442) Donatello, “Martyrdom of St. Sebastian” (1450-52) Donatello’s famous bronze statue of David Victorious at the Bargello is ...

N o Renaissance statue is more famous than Michelangelo’s David, carved at the start of the 16th century. Yet the five-metre-tall nude owes a debt to a much smaller, bronze sculpture that Donato ...

Calling Michelangelo's David iconic is something of an understatement: A monument of art history both literally and figuratively, it is undoubtedly the world's most famous sculpture-and, with a ...

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 ...