The David goes to the gym! An animated video from the Academy Gallery reveals its secret

Have you ever wondered why after so many years Michelangelo’s David is still showing off his wonderful shape? David has a secret: he goes to the gym, too! This is revealed in the new animated video, online from Monday, June 20 on Accademia online(DAVID 140 years in great shape), created from an idea by Cecilie Hollberg, director of the Florence Academy Gallery; subject, script and drawings are by Paolo Fiumi and multimedia development, animation and realization are by Antonio Osea Mansi.

DAVID 140 years in excellent shape was born on the occasion of DAVID 140. Not everyone knows that this beauty champion, with a statuesque physique and perfect six-pack abs, despite being 518 years old, undergoes hard physical training every morning before the museum opens to visitors. His coaches are the Prisoners who train him daily. And fortunately, for the past 140 years he has been placed safe from the elements in the Gallery under the Tribune, specially designed by architect Emilio de Fabris, with a very innovative domed skylight that gives natural lighting. The champion of beauty also has its private aestheticians, stone restorers who for years with their careful monthly cleaning operations have been carefully removing the dust that settles on the sculpture’s marble surface.

The video tells in a humorous and ironic way the story of Michelangelo’s masterpiece and the character it depicts: the biblical character, the hero David, a young king of Judah and Israel who defeats the giant Goliath; he is a legendary figure, a symbol of good fighting against evil.

The David goes to the gym! An animated video from the Academy Gallery reveals its secret

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