David (Michelangelo)

David (Michelangelo)

David is a <a href="/en/Masterpiece" title="Masterpiece" class="wl">masterpiece</a> of <a href="/en/Renaissance" title="Renaissance" class="wl">Renaissance</a> sculpture, created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the <a href="/en/Italians" title="Italians" class="wl">Italian</a> artist <a href="/en/Michelangelo" title="Michelangelo" class="wl">Michelangelo</a>. David is a 5.17-metre (17&nbsp;ft 0&nbsp;in)<a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;" data-mw-group="lower-alpha">[lower-alpha 1]</a> <a href="/en/Marble_statue" title="Marble statue" class="mw-redirect wl">marble statue</a> of the <a href="/en/Bible" title="Bible" class="wl">Biblical</a> figure <a href="/en/David" title="David" class="wl">David</a>, a favoured subject in the art of <a href="/en/Florence" title="Florence" class="wl">Florence</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;" data-mw-group="lower-alpha">[lower-alpha 2]</a>

<div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none" about="#mwt1">Renaissance statue in Florence, Italy</div>
<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn">Quick facts: David, Artist, Year, Medium, Subject... ▼</header> <table class="infobox vevent mobile-collapse-element" style="width: 22em; line-height: 1.4em; text-align: left; float:right;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">David</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/en/File:'David'_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:'David'_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg/220px-%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg" decoding="async" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="5472" data-file-type="bitmap" height="330" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg/330px-%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg/440px-%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg 2x" alt="%27David%27_by_Michelangelo_Fir_JBU005_denoised.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Artist</th><td class="infobox-data attendee"><a href="/en/Michelangelo" title="Michelangelo" class="wl">Michelangelo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Year</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr>c.</abbr> 1501 – June 8, 1504</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Medium</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/en/Marble_sculpture" title="Marble sculpture" class="wl">Marble sculpture</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data">Biblical <a href="/en/David" title="David" class="wl">David</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Dimensions</th><td class="infobox-data">517&nbsp;cm ×&nbsp;199&nbsp;cm (17&nbsp;ft ×&nbsp;6.5&nbsp;ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Galleria_dell'Accademia" title="Galleria dell'Accademia" class="wl">Galleria dell'Accademia</a>, <a href="/en/Florence" title="Florence" class="wl">Florence</a>, Italy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Preceded&nbsp;by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Pietà_(Michelangelo)" title="Pietà (Michelangelo)" class="wl">Pietà (Michelangelo)</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:0.65em;">Followed&nbsp;by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Madonna_of_Bruges" title="Madonna of Bruges" class="wl">Madonna of Bruges</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'>Close ▲</footer></div>
David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of <a href="/en/Florence_Cathedral" title="Florence Cathedral" class="wl">Florence Cathedral</a>, but was instead placed in a public square, outside the <a href="/en/Palazzo_Vecchio" title="Palazzo Vecchio" class="wl">Palazzo Vecchio</a>, 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 <a href="/en/Galleria_dell'Accademia" title="Galleria dell'Accademia" class="wl">Galleria dell'Accademia</a>, Florence, in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by <a href="/en/Replicas_of_Michelangelo's_David" title="Replicas of Michelangelo's David" class="wl">a replica</a>.

Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the <a href="/en/Republic_of_Florence" title="Republic of Florence" class="wl">Republic of Florence</a>, an independent <a href="/en/City-state" title="City-state" class="wl">city-state</a> threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the <a href="/en/Hegemony" title="Hegemony" class="wl">hegemony</a> of the <a href="/en/House_of_Medici" title="House of Medici" class="wl">Medici family</a>. The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards <a href="/en/Rome" title="Rome" class="wl">Rome</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;">[3]</a>

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  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 figure 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 turned towards Rome. 