Few statues are as enduring and iconic as Michelangelo's David (which found itself in the ... Cannata snuck a small hammer into the statue’s home at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.

And in 1810 the statue was covered with a protective wax and in 1843 an attempt to remove the wax with hydrochloric acid also stripped away some of the original surface. David was moved to his current ...