in the Medici Palazzo courtyard was this stunning sculpture of Donatello's David. This David (circa 1440s) is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance, and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity. It depicts David with an enigmatic smile, posed with his foot on Goliath's severed head just after defeating the giant. Today it stands in the Bargello, the National Sculpture Museum, and having recently undergone a restoration, stands in all its gleaming glory. I wonder what Clarice thought when she first encountered this David?
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