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
Statue of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion, Piazza Ognissanti Statue of Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion, Piazza Ognissanti The statue of Hercules Strangling the Lion is a bronze statue located in the Piazza Ognissanti, overlooking the Arno river in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The first bronze statuettes on this subject were completed and exhibited by the Florentine sculptor Romano Romanelli in 1906-1910. Romanelli became a prominent sculptor for the Fascist administration of Benito Mussolini. In 1930, the fascist authorities removed the statue of the Venetian-Italian patriot, Daniele Manin, from the center of this piazza, where it had been placed, and installed it in the suburbs of Arcetri. In