A lot, I guess, when it is Michelangelo's David...a symbol of the emergence of art from the Middle Ages...into a classic mode when being just what we are as human beings was ok...heroic, yes, but just a guy looking to take out the Big Guy (in this case Goliath).
Of course, this version in front of the Palazzo Vecchio (Florence's town hall) is a copy...the real one being inside protected from air and other forms of pollution. But in this same plaza in Florence is a host of other statues...like the REAL Cellini's version of Perseus's cutting off the head of the Medusa...whoosh, was that a blow...
Boy, did that hurt....
And the Rape of the Sabine Women...
It's all there...in the same public square...which is what makes this city so unique. Florence does not just have museums. Florence, like Venice, is a museum that people live and work in. And around each corner is another collection of the art and architecture that has come to define much of what we call western civilization.
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