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Close-Ups Of Michelangelo’s David Will Make You Appreciate It Even More It took him 2 years, and the result is 17ft tall (over 5 metres) and weighs a whopping 12,478 lbs (5,660kg)!  Over 8 million people per year visit the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence so they can marvel at the iconic marble statue  It looks magnificent from a distance, but you need to take a closer look to appreciate Michelangelo’s incredible attention to detail  Two other sculptors had tried to carve the block before abandoning their respective projects, and the marble laid unused for 10 years  “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all,” Michelangelo once said  Michelangelo died in 1564, aged 88, but his statue of David will live on  Here’s an idea of what David might look like in real life   |
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