The enormous block of marble was transformed in 3 years into the work of art that was to establish, along with the Pietà displayed at the Vatican, Michelangelo's reputation as the foremost sculptor of his day. David was always intended as an outdoor sculpture which explains some of the extraordinary physical distortions evident in the statue, such as the overly large hands and head. Even the eyes are made to be looked at from below; when examined from statue eye level, in fact, the two eyes were found to be looking in different directions.
Of course this is a copy of the sculpture, the original is protected inside the Gallery dell'Accademia Museum.




You might give a look at the gallery in the whole, since all the photos are somehow interconnected...