Accademia Gallery and David of Michelangelo

DID YOU KNOW that… *Michelangelo’s masterpiece David originally stood in Piazza della Signoria in front of Palazzo Vecchio where one of the city’s many ‘fake Davids’ now stands. *David’s stern gaze was said to originally face Rome as a warning glance should anyone challenge the independent city-state that was the Florentine Republic. *In 1991, a … Did you Know?..The David of Michelangelo