Michelangelo's David, Florence, Italy

David about to take on Goliath, Michelangelo masterpiece clip from "Gondola With the Wind", a free Intrepid Berkeley Explorer video that begins in Italy with Rome, Pisa, Florence, and Venice, followed by Vienna, glorious Prague, Poland (including Warsaw & Auschwitz), Ukraine, and Budapest (Hungary).

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Travel & Events

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• Italy
• Michelangelo
• David
• King-David
• David-vs-Goliath
• Florence
• Michelangelo's-David

[kingpeople]

why small penis?

I thought europeans had larger penises..

[intrepberkexplorer]

@kingpeople,

Can't help answer this question. You need a time machine to contact Michelangelo.

[THEMACK85]

im going this Fall...will I be able to even bring my camera inside?

[intrepberkexplorer]

@THEMACK85,

The rules keep changing everywhere as to both stills and video. The video of David I took was in 1994. When last in Florence, 2001, I was informed that cameras had been banned.

So that ban may still be enforced against you, or the rules could have changed again.  I have sent e-mail to museums asking about their policies on cameras in advance to avoid false expectations. That's my best suggestion.

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[123RUTH123]

I agree, I didn't realise he was so big :)

[jonathantangjerd]

it's nice to see him in relation to other people to see the scale. thanks for the vid.

[ImaginedWriter]

@Bokan995 The style of the Statue was inspired by the ancient Greeks and the artist was an Italian so the whole piece is Western.

In its own context it was supposed to represent the David like city of Florence standing up to the Goliath like Papal Rome.

If it was a statue of an actual middle eastern Jew made by a Jew then there would be no statue because Jews are forbidden from making images of humans and the racial characteristics, as well as the Greco-Roman style would be different.

[SmileChicky]

@kingpeople because in this time frame men having relationships with young boys was the norm and expected. So beauty was a mans body, with a young boys penis and bum, also with out chest hair was good.

[AIMANALI]

people these days can make a staute like that no problem. Can someone tell me what makes this special...was it a first of its kind or what ?

[xinfator]

@kingpeople

Look at his face, absolute terror. Goliath was about to eat him for luch so his peepee shrank.

[theJRLMchannel]

imma mold my body into the david

[theJRLMchannel]

@TwinDragons310 it was michelangelo who made him but yea he is quite a piece

[TwinDragons310]

He's so COOL! I really want to see this art for real some day. :3 Yay Da Vinci!