The Statue of David is perhaps the most perfect work of art ever created, and yet it was carved from a rejected block of marble.
This is the story of the Renaissance masterpiece 🧵

The Statue of David is perhaps the most perfect work of art ever created, and yet it was carved from a rejected block of marble.
This is the story of the Renaissance masterpiece 🧵

David is the work of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, the legendary Florentine sculptor and polymath. His greatest sculpture came to be the defining work of the Renaissance.
