You may be wondering who is David? Or what is the David? Within the next few pages I will be answering your questions like : Who is David? Or what is the David? His importance in history? When was the David sculpted? Why was the David sculpted? And finally a comparison between other Davids, like Vercchio’s David and Donotello’s David. Oprea del Dumo di Firenze ordered the statue in 1501 after Michelangelo had come back …showed first 75 words of 1262 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1262 total…great impact on Michelangelo’s wanting to be a sculptor . It was during the time that he stayed with Lorenzo de Medici that he studied the anatomy of the human body by dissecting corpses. For twenty years after Michelangelo finished the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he worked in Florence designing most of the Medici Chapel. Then Michelangelo became a military engineer when Florence was attacked. In 1532, Michelangelo left Florence and never saw it again.