Large Foot of Michelangelo's David Statue

In 1501 Michelangelo was commissioned to create the David, which as it turned out was one of the most famous renaissance sculpture art pieces, by the Arte della Lana (Guild of Wool Merchant) who were responsible for the upkeep and the decoration of the Cathedral in Florence. For this purpose, the renaissance artist, Michelangelo was given a block of marble which Agostino di Duccio had already attempted to fashion forty years previously, perhaps with the same subject in mind. Michelangelo's renaissance sculpture breaks away from the traditional way of representing David in sculpture. He does not present us with the winner with the giant's head at his feet and the powerful sword in his hand, but portrays the youth in the phase immediately preceding the battle: perhaps he has caught him in the moment when he has heard that his people are hesitating with Goliath jeering and mocking them.