Michelangelo's sculpture of 'David' is one of the most famous works of art in the world. Here are three facts you may not know about it. There's a long and storied history associated with the ...

Whether you're Catholic or not, it's hard to argue with the claim that St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is an amazing feat of ...

Michelangelo created David from a piece of marble that had been twice discarded by other sculptors. Agostino di Duccio gave up on a project using the block, after which it sat untouched for 10 years.

Here are some fun facts about Michelangelo’s David: The marble was upcycled. In the time it took to settle on Michelangelo as the right sculptor for David, two sculptors had a crack at it.

Michelangelo’s David is nude, a proclamation and celebration of God's greatest creation, we humans,” says William Wallace, an art history professor at Washington University, St. Louis.

On Sept. 8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David was unveiled to the public in Florence, Italy. The 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound statue carved from a single block of white Italian ...

FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504. But in the current era of the quick buck, curators worry the marble ...

A charter school principal in Tallahassee, Florida, did not follow procedure before a lesson on Michelangelo's statue of David was given to sixth graders, school board Chair Barney Bishop III told ...

You know the David, Michelangelo’s 17-foot-tall marble statue that depicts one of the great heroes of the Old Testament, just before he slays the giant Goliath.

The Simpsons eerily predicts parents’ demands to censor Michelangelo’s David in school “It saddens me that my time here had to end this way,” Ms Carrasquilla told the Tallahassee Democrat.

David vs. the Philistines, Round 2. Once again, David, who famously smote Goliath, is doing battle with the Philistines, said Stephanie Hayes in the Tampa Bay Times.It is worth noting that ...