<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy </Td> </Tr> <P> David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo . David is a 5.17 - metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude . The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence . </P> <P> David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of civic government in Florence, in the Piazza della Signoria where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504 . The statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica . </P> <P> Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence, an independent city - state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the hegemony of the Medici family . The eyes of David, with a warning glare, were turned towards Rome . </P>

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