{"id":7139,"date":"2026-09-08T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:52:10","slug":"michelangelos-david-was-unveiled-in-florence-in-1504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7139","title":{"rendered":"Michelangelo\u2019s David Was Unveiled in Florence in 1504"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13327\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13327\" class=\"wp-image-13327 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/David-150x150.png\" alt=\"David by Michelangelo (detail)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David by Michelangelo<br \/>(detail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Michelangelo\u2019s <i>David<\/i> was unveiled in Florence in 1504<\/strong>. Michelangelo started working on the seventeen foot marble statue in 1501. For many years it was displayed in an open piazza, but it was moved to the Accademia Gallery in 1873. A replica was then placed in the statue\u2019s original location. Children might be interested in the book <em>Michelangelo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities<\/em>\u00a0by Simonetta Carr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelangelo\u2019s David was unveiled in Florence in 1504. Michelangelo started working on the seventeen foot marble statue in 1501. For many years it was displayed in an open piazza, but it was moved to the Accademia Gallery in 1873. A replica was then placed in the statue\u2019s original location. Children might be interested in the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7139' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5844,1486,162,1485,5840],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5844","tag-accademia-gallery","tag-italy","tag-michelangelos-david","tag-september-8","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29698,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/29698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}