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 ...

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.