Few statues are as enduring and iconic as Michelangelo's David (which found itself in the news in 2023 when a Florida school principal was asked to resign after the statue was shown to sixth grade ...

And in 1810 the statue was covered with a protective wax and in 1843 an attempt to remove the wax with hydrochloric acid also stripped away some of the original surface. David was moved to his current ...

But to do so, the museum did not haul the 17-foot-tall David from the Galleria ... get closer to the artist’s original material, before hand-finishing the final sculpture. But why exhibit ...