David is a large sculpture, measuring 13' 5" high, and is a sculpture of marble. Michelangelo's sculptures were often larger than life

... David Michelangelo Buonarroti 1504 Marble Sculpture Galleria dell' Accdemia, Florence. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was a Florentine Sculptor, painter, poet, and architect. Based in Florence he started out as painter at the age of thirteen, apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, the leading fresco wall painter in Florence. But eventually his ambitions led to sculpture. Michelangelo had an ideal based on the physical expressiveness of the male nude.1 Michelangelo sculpted in a Naturalistic style, its main characteristic being the depiction of subjects in a realistic manner. His sculptures, like David, often depict the mastery of anatomy; this can be shown by the structure of every muscle and sinew in the sculptures. For David, Michelangelo had taken up the theme Donatello and Andrea del Verrocchio had used successfully in their David sculptures; Michelangelo's version was from a political point of view.2 David is the largest free standing marble statue since classical times. The narrative derived about this sculpture speaks of the

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