David has always been controversial Michelangelo's 17-foot-tall marble statue of David has been controversial from the start, notes C.A. Bridges in The Daytona Beach News-Journal. When it was ...

Michelangelo's David is among the most famous pieces of ... how Italian cultural curators are becoming worried that the "marble statue's religious and political significance is being diminished ...

Though Carrasquilla said she was not told about the reason for the decision, she said it likely involved a lesson about the marble statue, which features David in the nude, that was taught to ...

Michelangelo accepted the challenge of sculpting a colossal statue for Florence from a neglected block of marble. Where others saw flaws, he saw potential. Over three years, he sculpted the David ...