The David

After Michelangelo finished the Pieta, he returned to Florence to work on a piece called the David. He worked on it from 1501-1504. Many other editions of David, he shown after the victory of slaying Goliath. Michelangelo did not do this. Instead he carved David before the fight contemplating the fight that was about to come. The block of marble that David was carved from so huge that it could not be brought down from the mountain. Instead Michelangelo had to design and oversee the buidling of a new road from quarry down the mountain. People were so impressed with the statue they decided to put it in the town plaza instead of top of the cathedral. The original now stands in Florence. A duplicate stands in the town square.