Replicas of Michelangelo's David

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Asia

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• In India, a replica installed at the Administrative Building of the
  University of Pune is a legacy of the British Raj
  .
• In 1995, a
  pornographic. Finally, a compromise was reached and another, fully clad replica of a different statue (David by Verrocchio
  ) was donated instead.
• In Korea, Hallym University, a replica of David was installed in front of the library.
• In Dubai, Italy Pavilion in
  UAE
  's Islamic culture.

• A 7m tall Carrara marble replica of David can be viewed at Emerald Lakes, Queensland in the suburb of Carrara, Queensland.^[3]
• A replica of David can be found at the Moreland Hotel, in Brunswick, Victoria.^{[citation needed]}

Europe

• The bronze cast of David in
  Medici Chapel.^[4]
• A plaster cast copy in the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was intended for the education of art students, and had a detachable fig leaf, used for added modesty during visits by Queen Victoria and other important ladies, when it was hung on the figure using two strategically placed hooks.^[5]
• There is a cast in Park Den Brandt in Antwerp.^[6]
• Pushkin Museum in Moscow^[7]
• A bronze cast stands in front of the Kongelige Afstøbningssamling, the Danish Royal Cast Collection at the Langelinie Promenade in Copenhagen, though it could not be placed more prominently due to misspelling the artist as "Michael Angelo" in the plaque.^[8]
• In 2007, Märklin produced a Z scale (1:220) bronze replica of the statue, which stood approximately 1.6 inches (41 mm) tall. The statue accompanied the "museumswagen" for that year, a collector car offered in the Märklin museum in Göppingen to celebrate the German foundry Strassacker.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2016, Nadey Hakim produced a bronze bust of the statue. The replica is permanently exhibited at the Monterchi Museum, Italy. The museum is the home of the renowned Madonna del Parto which is Piero della Francesca's most famous piece.^[9]
• In 2018, the technology brand Samsung reimagined Michelangelo's David as a domestic god standing on top of a washing machine as part of an advertising campaign which toured the parks and plazas of London.^{[citation needed]}
• Replica of the statue can be found in the streets avenue du Prado in Marseille, France, close to the sea. It was done by sculptor Jules Cantini in 1903.

North America

• A bronze full-scale replica of David was presented to the City of
  Delaware Park. In recent years, the City of Buffalo Arts Commission has contracted with Russell Marti Conservation Services to conserve and color the bronze. While in the early 20th century a fig leaf covered a portion of the statue, the fig leaf was later removed to reveal the entire masterpiece. ^[10]
• A bronze copy can be found in the Plaza Río de Janeiro of Mexico City's Colonia Roma. It has become a symbol of the neighborhood.^{[citation needed]}
• A scale replica can be found at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. It is in the school's older building which primarily functions as a museum, but has several casts for the students’ use.^{[citation needed]}
• Also intended for students was the cast in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.^{[citation needed]}
• A bronze replica stands in the courtyard of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.^{[citation needed]}
• There is a full-scale replica of David on the campus of California State University, Fullerton that lies broken in pieces on the ground. It was brought from Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress to campus by a professor in 1988 after it was damaged in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake. Visitors often touch the remains of the sculpture for tactile study or, in a new student tradition, the dislocated but upturned butt for good luck on final exams.^[11]
• Three replicas of David once stood at the
  Northridge earthquake in 1994.^[12]
  The current David is cast out of bronze and was installed in 2021.
• Also in
  Hancock Park neighbourhood in Los Angeles has decorated his house and grounds with twenty-three reduced scale replicas of the statue, all retaining different facial expressions.^[13]
• A replica may be found at the "Appian Way Shops" at
  Las Vegas, Nevada.^[14]
• In 1971, Thomas L. Fawick gifted a bronze replica of the statue to the city of
  Sioux Falls, South Dakota, which stands in Fawick Park.^[15]
• In 1965, David Sollazzini and Sons of Florence, Italy created a Carrara marble replica for the Palace of Living Art at the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California. The marble used for this replica was taken from Michelangelo's own quarry near Pietrasanta. This replica was later sold to Ripley Entertainment for the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum in St. Augustine, Florida.^{[citation needed]}
• In 1966, Mike Caffee created a plaster statue for the gay
  GLBT Historical Society Museum.^[16]
• In 2004, as part of Stanford University's "Digital Michelangelo Project", a highly accurate 15 inch replica was made by Gentle Giant Studios mechanically reproducing their digital scans of the original. Ignoring the advice of an Italian sculptor to soften the features of a reduced-scale copy "otherwise, it appears precious and cartoony", the results were felt to be satisfactory, if "angular when viewed in person, especially around his face."^[17]
• 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. (Another copy is located in Eskişehir, Turkey).^[18][19][20]
• Exhibition of a replica of David began on 7 January 2023, in the
  Mexico City, Mexico. This exact copy was handcrafted by Florentine artists and was certified by the Galleria dell'Accademia
  .

• 
  Bronze casting in Buffalo, New York
• 
  Replica of David at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California
• 
  Reduced-scale copies of David in Los Angeles, decorated for Christmas 2005

South America

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• A bronze replica stands on the esplanade of
  Palacio Municipal in Montevideo, Uruguay
  .
• A marble replica of David is located in the gardens of the Instituto Ricardo Brennand, Recife, Brazil. It was made by Cervietti Franco & Company, again of Pietrasanta.
• A marble replica of David is located in cable car hill Otto's gallery of art, Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina.
• A replica was innaugurated in 2024 in
  Resistencia, Argentina
  .
• A replica of David is located in front of the Worker's Recreational Center, a park on the east side of São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

• 
  A marble replica at the

  Instituto Ricardo Brennand in Recife

  , Brazil

See also

• Replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà

Notes

1. ^ A. Victor Coonin, From Marble to Flesh: The Biography of Michelangelo’s David, Florence, The Florentine Press, 2014.
2. ^ John Launer, The many faces of David, QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 2005, Volume 98, Number 10 Pp. 777–778, Oxford University Press [1]
3. ^ "Check out Michelangelo's David… in Emerald Lakes", Things To Do Sober, 29 April 2017.
4. ^ "Michelangelo – Sculpture, Painting, Architecture | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
5. ^ "David's Fig Leaf". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2007.
6. ^ "Parc Den Brandt". A-stad (in Dutch). Retrieved 17 July 2023.
7. ^ "The Sculpture of Michelangelo". pushkinmuseum.art. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
8. ^ September 2015, Peter Moore | 25. "Where to find Michelangelo's David around Europe". Wanderlust. Retrieved 17 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
9. ^ "The Positive Changes Of History – Nadey Hakim: "The Art's Surgeon"". L'ItaloEuropeo – Independent Magazine in London. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
10. ^ Smithsonian
11. ^ Daily Titan
12. ISBN 0679771867
13. ^ Daniel Yi, "House of 'David': When 17 replicas of Michelangelo's famed statue adorn the outside of a home, is it art or excess?," Los Angeles Times, Metro (17 November 1997): 1.
14. ^ Frommer's Portable Las Vegas
15. ^ "Looking Back: Fawick's gift of the Statue of David". Argusleader.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
16. ^ Casey Hoke (22 August 2017). "Mike Caffee- Fe-Be's Leather David (1966)". Queer Art History. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
17. ^ Stanford, including comparisons with two small commercial replicas
18. ^ Randy Kennedy, "Black, White and Read All Over Over", The New York Times, 15 December 2006.
19. ^ Göksel Bozkurt, "Davut sculpture goes to Kentucky 21C museum", Hürriyet Daily News, 19 September 2011.
20. ^ "Louisville residents react to giant, gold David statue" Archived 10 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine, WHAS-TV, 2 May 2012.

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