the sculpture is actually perfect — a perfect marble likeness of an athletic man’s body — except for a couple of tendons on the lower side of the wrists. Irrespective of that the David is as ...

The statue depicts David, hero of the Jewish Torah and Christian ... noticed a bulging vein on the right side of the hero’s neck, usually a sign of heart disease. “It struck me as odd, very ...

The “David” statue’s nudity has been part of a centuries-old debate about art pushing boundaries and the rules of censorship. In the 1500s, metal fig leaves covered the genitals of statues ...

But I’m trying to show your side as truthfully as possible ... We’re not going to show the full statue of David to kindergartners. We’re not going to show him to second graders.