The Italian government has announced it will spend about $ 300,000 on a new, stronger plinth for Michelangelo’s David because of a recent series of tremors in the Tuscan Region, the BBC reported some days ago.
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Found micro-fractures in Michelangelo’s statue of David
Found micro-fractures in Michelangelo’s statue of David, researchers in Florence warned on Wednesday April 30, 2014.
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Michelangelo’s David with Rifle taken out of Circulation
Michelangelo’s David with Rifle advertisement was taken out of Circulation last march. The company said in a statement to ABC News that the ad had been taken out of circulation when a new owner bought ArmaLite.
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Florence blasts Michelangelo’s David holding rifle
The city of Florence, Italy, blasts Michelangelo’s David holding rifle image. The comments come after the the image by Illinois-based ArmaLite, which uses Michelangelo’s statue to promote the rifle with the tagline “A work of art”.
Read moreThe Japanese want “put some clothes on David”
Giant reproductions of Michelangelo’s David and the Venus de Milo are raising eyebrows in the Japanese town of Okuizumo because of their oversize nude bodies.
Read moreFlorence prepares Michelangelo anniversary
Plans were presented in Florence on Tuesday to mark the 450th anniversaries of the death of Michelangelo and and the founding of the Accademia delle Belle Arti that houses his David sculpture. David by the Italian artist Michelangelo is the masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504.