The David
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 from Rome. It took Michelangelo two and one half to three years to complete the David. The David was originally placed in front of Palazzo Vecchio, but in 1873, to protect it from the elements, a copy of the David was put outside of the Palazzo Vecchio to replace the real one which was put into the Accademia Gallery. David was the youngest of eight sons of Jesse. He was a shepherd that had saved his father’s sheep from a lion and a bear only using a sling and smooth stone. These were common weapons in those days. If you practiced long and hard enough, you could shoot one rock up to one hundred miles per hour and you could hit anything you wanted to, like a tree , a bird, or any animal you wanted . When David was about fifteen years old, he was sent by his father, Jesse, to go to the
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Approximate Word count = 1243
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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