What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from ...

8, 1504, Michelangelo’s towering marble statue of David ... of High Renaissance art ever since, and a topic of controversy for nearly as long. The statue depicts David, hero of the Jewish ...

A principal at a charter school in Tallahassee, Florida, resigned last week after parents complained about a Renaissance art lesson involving Michelangelo’s iconic, unclothed David statue ...

and of the possibilities embedded in art.” Michelangelo Buonarroti sculpted the David between 1501-1504 after being commissioned by the Cathedral of Florence. The statue is the showpiece of the ...

was forced to step down last week after parents complained about a 6th grade Renaissance art lesson that showed students a picture of Michelangelo's sculpture of David. Barney Bishop, the school ...

and of the possibilities embedded in art." Michelangelo Buonarroti sculpted the "David" between 1501-1504 after being commissioned by the Cathedral of Florence. The statue is the showpiece of the ...

explaining that equating the sculpture to pornography is to misunderstand it on numerous levels. Florida Principal Out of a Job After 6th-Graders Viewed Michelangelo's 'David' During Art Lesson ...

It's a classical school, he said, so students see nude images in Renaissance art, including Michelangelo's 16th-century sculpture of David, every year. The problem this time was that the ...

The Florence museum that houses Michelangelo's statue of David has invited teachers and students from a Florida school to visit, after an uproar over an art lesson. The school's principal quit ...