The Many Meanings of Michelangelo’s Statue of David

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There was a giant in the city of Florence. It had been there for nearly forty years. And no one knew what to do about it. The giant was an enormous block of stone–marble, to be exact. It stood three times as tall as any man in the city. It was the color of cream. And it was a troublemaker.

~JANE SUTCLIFFE, author of Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be

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