I always pictured Goliath being 17 feet tall...well I was wrong, apparently in Michaelangelo's world David is freakishly large. The picture you see is a replica standing in the spot where the real David stood for many years at the Palazzo Vecchio. We saw the real David, he now is in a museum at the Academia. Originally David was meant to stand on the roofline of the Duomo.
I can't quite put into words how amazing Michaelangelo's David is. Realistic based upon the Bible, not so much. I guess when it comes to realistic I prefer Donatello's David, a boy standing on Goliath's head.
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