Michelangelo's David carved from a block of marble...

Michelangelo's David carved from a block of marble is considered the most famous work in art history. Copies of it can also be found all over the world, some in small format or as figures for terraces and gardens. These are mostly made of less material. A large figure based on Michelangelo's David was created by the concept artist Hans - Peter Feldmann, who has stood in Kant-Park in front of the Lehmbrucker Museum in Duisburg since 2010. In terms of aesthetics, however, it cannot compete with Michelangelo's work, and the blonde color of the head and pubic hair seems rather out of place.
Michelangelo's original is 5.17 m high and is in the Galleria dell'Academia in Florence. It is a representation of the biblical David, the slingshot slung over his left shoulder, ready to fight the giant Goliath. The right hand encloses the projectile.
Before Michelangelo, other sculptors had already taken up the David as a motif, such as Donatello and Verocchio, but also the painter Andrea del Castagna. What they have in common is that they portrayed David after a successful fight with the giant's severed head. Michelangelo, on the other hand, chose David, who was preparing for battle.
Michelangelo's work shows a David, whose elegantly designed physique reveals the tension of the impending event, muscles and tendons in tension, looking into the distance. It is the flawlessness that gives the work its aura, allows it to be perceived as an aesthetic specialty.
It was a commissioned work that the artist was asked for by the dominant "Arte Della Lana" of the wool weavers' guild in 1501. It should be an impressive work.
Other sculptors, who had been commissioned in advance, stopped this work at an early stage and left the Carrara marble block only roughly carved.
In 1504 the sculpture found its location in the square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. When the return of the Medici family, who had been exiled from the city, was subject to serious physical abuse, the left arm of the sculpture was hit by a bench and fell to pieces when the projectile flew out of a window in the palazzo. The young architect Giorgio Vasari, who was in the service of the Medici, fortunately collected the fragments. In 1543 Cosimo I de 'Medici had the David restored using the fragments.
In 1873 the sculpture came to the Florentine Accademia, in a domed room specially built for it, as the marble had suffered in the open air over the centuries. In 1910 a marble copy was placed in its original place in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.
The work created by Michelangelo had thus undergone a series of attacks, which, however, can no longer be identified in its current appearance. The figure presents itself sublime and full of charisma.