Real Height of DavidThe Florence Marble David:Until the year 2000, all history books (for some hundreds of years) mention that the height of Michelangelo's marble David in the Accademia in Florence, measures 434 cm (without his pedestal, but including the carved rock on which he is standing) . Then, in February and March 1999, a group of Stanford University scientists were allowed to make scans of David and to their surprise they discover that their tower was too short. See pic left below. Here is their story:
This height was echoed in every other book we checked, so we assumed it was correct. It was wrong. The David is not 434cm without his pedestal; he is 517cm, an error of nearly 3 feet!) The height of the David is 497 cm from head to toe (i.e. without the carved rock on which he is standing.) >> The Ringling Museum Bronze David:Some Ringling Museum docent material states that David was cast in bronze from a mold, made from the real David, made in 1874 as part of a celebration of Michelangelo's 400 year Birthday. Two other "Davids" cast from the same mold have prominent positions - one overlooks Florence in the Piazzale Michelangelo and the other is part of the Vatican Collection in Rome.
The present Chiurazzi Foundry's literature mentions that bronze David sculptures can be purchased, which have been molded from "a marble sculpture". They do not specify the origin.
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