, who also designed a sculpture of David, was the most important and imaginative sculptor of the mid-fifteenth century. He was commissioned to make a bronze statue of David, five feet in height, which after it was finished was placed at the head of the staircase in the Palazzo della Signoria. This figure of the youthful David is one of the most beloved and famous works of its time. Created around 1476 in Florence, Verrocchio conveyed the arrogance of a young man thro
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