MICHELANGELO'S DAVID: 8 Degrees of Separation

CAN WE GET FROM HERE...

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...TO HERE?

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LET'S START COUNTING!

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1501-4: Michelangelo sculpts a monumental marble David to surmount a buttress at Florence Cathedral: 1

1504: The David is placed, instead, in front of Palazzo Vecchio: 2

1873: The original David is transferred to the Accademia Gallery: 3

Also in 1873: A marble replica is placed in front of the Palazzo Vecchio: 4

(For steps 1 through 4, you can find a fuller chronology with Illustrations here.)

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Circa 1960: Piazza della Signoria (with the replica of Michelangelo's David) is documented by a photographer: 5

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1980s: The resulting photograph is enlarged, transferred to easy-care formica and featured on a traditional Florentine Tripe Stand: 6

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2010: Another eagle-eyed photographer captures our Tripe Stand David in full context: 7

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2011: Yours, online: 8

2026: Yours, refreshed...but we won't count that one.

NOTE TO SELF:

I need to do some posts on Florentine Tripe Stands... Over the years, I have eaten an obscene quantity of trippa, lampredotto, budellina and the like —and I have the photos to prove it.

In the meantime, here is a big-picture shot of Marco Bolognesi's location (as it was in Via Gioberti, after Intimissimi decamped but before Marco shifted a couple of dozen meters to nearby Piazza Beccaria).