David (Donatello) Roman type of mature, bearded head". Donatello's bronze statue of David (circa 1440s) is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance, and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity. It depicts David with an enigmatic smile, posed with his foot on Goliath's severed head just after defeating the giant. The youth is completely naked, apart from a laurel-topped hat and boots, bearing the sword of Goliath. The creation of the work is entirely undocumented, and it has been given a range of datings. According to one theory, it was commissioned by the
Monument to Bettino Ricasoli, Florence Monument to Bettino Ricasoli, Florence A Monument to Bettino Ricasoli is a Bronze statue with a plinth adorned with two bronze bas-reliefs that honors the 19th-century Italian patriot and statesman, Bettino Ricasoli, and is located in the Piazza dell'Indipendenza in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It had been initially planned to erect an equestrian monument dedicated to King Vittorio Emanuele II in this plaza. A clay model was created by the sculptor Salvino Salvini in 1864. But by 1872, the capital had been transferred to Rome, and the ambitious project was scrapped by the commune, in part piqued at the