David is a masterpiece of renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the italian artist michelangelo.
The sculpture is in the marble michelangelo.
David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of florence cathedral.
Read on for the 10 most famous sculptures of michelangelo.
Michelangelo worked in marble sculpture all his life and in the other arts only during certain periods.
Shaped from a single block of white carrara marble the bandini pietà is the third and final pieta that michelangelo worked on during his career.
David is a 5 17 metre 17 0 ft marble statue of the biblical figure david a favoured subject in the art of florence.
Michelangelo also left many drawings sketches and some works in poetry.
Lost works are included but not commissions that michelangelo never made.
The statue can be seen in the castello sforzesco in milan.
Rondanini pietà 1550 to 1564 castello sforzesco milanthe rondanini pietà is an unfinished marble sculpture that michelangelo worked on from around 1550 until the last days of his life in 1564.
Restoration of michelangelo s bandini pietà at.
The taddei tondo is the only marble sculpture of michelangelo in the united kingdom.