The 17-foot-tall, 12,000-pound statue carved from a single block of white Italian Carrara marble has been considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance art ever since, and a topic of controversy ...

The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world.

While Tallahassee Classical is reportedly required to teach about Renaissance art in the 6th grade, three parents spoke up about the lesson’s contents and claimed it upset their children.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints ...

If you show a picture of Michelangelo’s statue of David, one of the most familiar works in art history, to a room full of schoolchildren they may smirk or giggle over the figure’s naked body ...

A Florida charter school principal says she was forced to resign after parents complained about a Renaissance art lesson in which images of Michelangelo’s David were shown to students. Hope ...

Among those who were in support of the ousted Florida principal was the director of Florence's Accademia Galleria, where Michelangelo's David is housed. On Friday, the two finally got to meet.

Donatello’s David looks quite different from Michelangelo’s. Sure, both assume the same contrapposto stance favored by Renaissance artists, and are holding on to the stone they would have used ...

Michelangelo’s “David” — the impetus for a Florida school principal’s ouster this week — was the backdrop in Florence, Italy, in 2015 as Angela Merkel, then chancellor of Germany, and ...

Michelangelo's sculpture of 'David' is one of the most famous works of art in the world. Here are three facts you may not know about it.

Tallahassee principal ousted after complaints about Michelangelo's 'David' in art lesson “It saddens me that my time here had to end this way,” Hope Carrasquilla told the Tallahassee Democrat.