Florence Mayor Dario Nardello called it “just ridiculous” that anyone could confuse the Renaissance masterpiece for pornography.
— and invited them to come to check out its “purity” up close themselves.
The work, finished in 1504 by famed artist Michelangelo, depicts the Biblical David going to fight the Goliath armed with only his faith in God. The marble statue came under fire when three parents of sixth graders at charter school Tallahassee Classical School complained about the lesson, including one parent calling it pornographic.
Additionally, on Sunday’s front page of an Italian daily publication, Corriere della Sera, a cartoon drawn by its top satirist depicted David with his genitals covered by an Uncle Sam and the word “Shame.”
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