A detail of Michelangelo's 16th century statue of David is seen on display on March 18, 2024, at the Accademia gallery, in Florence, Italy. Curators say the statue faces commercial exploitation ...

David, mid-cleaning. | Franco Origlia/Getty Images. On September 14, 1991, Italian artist Piero Cannata snuck a small hammer into the statue’s home at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.

ROME – Florence's mayor says his city, not the central government in Rome, owns Michelangelo's marble masterpiece David, one of the most popular tourist ...

ROME >> A former Florida school principal who was forced to resign after students were shown an image of Michelangelo’s iconic statue of a nude David viewed the masterpiece in person today in ...

ROME - The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson ...

Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad, posed for selfies in front of the giant marble statue, which features the Biblical David, naked with a sling over his shoulder ...

ROME — The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the “David” invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson ...

Expo shows just top of famed David statue When visitors make their ... Controversy erupted in 2016 when officials erected wooden panels to shield nude statues at Rome's Capitoline Museums during a ...

MILAN — Florence’s mayor is defending his city’s ownership of Michelangelo’s marble masterpiece “David” after the Culture Ministry reportedly asserted that the t… ...

ROME - The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson ...

Controversy erupted in 2016 when officials erected wooden panels to shield nude statues at Rome’s Capitoline Museums during a visit by Iran’s then-President Hassan Rouhani.