Welcome to my shop, take a look around! My prints are of flawless design and quality. That being said, I hope you find something that catches your eye. An amazing quality home or desktop decoration. Classy and minimalistic while also elegant, it will help make your room feel more alive. Works perfectly as a gift or simply just to decorate a space. David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture, created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. The biblical figure David was a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties embodied in the 1494 constitution of the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the political aspirations of the Medici family. The history of the statue of David begins before Michelangelo's work on it from 1501 to 1504. The commission was made during a decisive period in the history of the Florentine republic established after the expulsion of the Medici. The advantages of democratic government never materialised, and internal circumstances grew worse as dangers from without increased. Lorenzo de' Medici's successors and their supporters were a constant threat to the republic, and it was in defiance of the menace they represented that the project of a marble David was renewed.